EditorialTax
cuts: The only thing government can't afford: New cabinet level departments,
entitlements galore and so much more! W. James Antle III wants to know why government
can afford everything except for tax cuts?Single
Federal Code Redux Part Two: Using Congress to safeguard our liberties: Bruce
Walker continues his look at the benefits of a more powerful federal government
with the role that Congress would play in his schemeBlackmun's
bane: Attorney Mark M. Trapp reads Roe v. Wade and it's supporting
documentation, something few people have apparently bothered to do, and discovers
something interestingFighting for
freedom while losing our freedom: Once again American soldiers stand ready
to defend their nation's interests and free a people from tyranny. Alan Caruba
says it's a shame no one cares about the diminishing freedom of AmericansProblems
for the Axis of Weasel: Jackson Murphy says that world events are rapidly
illustrating the irrelevance of nations like France and Germany Walking
on thin ice: All the protests and UN posturing doesn't change a fact, says
Henry Lamb, Saddam Hussein is on the thin edge of the wedge and it's going to
be George W. Bush to give him a shoveAmerica's
non-resolve to fight evil: Even as American soldiers prepare themselves for
a seemingly inevitable war against Iraq Ed Cline says the United States is fighting
the war against terrorism halfheartedlyDoes
the US have a double standard with regards to North Korea and Iraq?: David
T. Pyne says it certainly looks that way. If you compare the actions of Iraq and
North Korea, Saddam Hussein doesn't hold a candle to the belligerence of Kim Jong-IlWhy
does Saddam pose an imminent threat?: If you don't know the answer, Carol
Devine-Molin provides why she thinks Iraq is a clear and present danger to the
United States and the rest of the civilized worldSheryl
Crow, useful idiots, and the fashionable anti-war crowd: Principled dissent
to war is a good thing but Patrick Bryson has a big problem with the type of dissent
being practiced by people like Sheryl CrowAren't
we all guilty of excess?: Hypocritical celebrities are slamming America's
"excess" but Brian S. Wise says Americans have nothing to apologize
about Doing what any father would do:
One night last month Ronald Dixon wounded a violent criminal who had broken into
his home and entered the room of his 2-year old child. Predictably he's being
charged for using a handgun. Paul Walfield says that's outrageousNDP
Leadership 2003: Final Day: Barton Wong wraps up his coverage from the New
Democrat leadership convention with some final thoughts about the convention and
the election of Jack LaytonLayton
Triumphant: Day Two, NDP Leadership 2003: Barton Wong continues his report
from the New Democrat convention with some behind the scenes gossipThe
NDP Leadership Convention 2003: Day One: Barton Wong reports from the first
day of the NDP convention in Toronto. The whole world is waiting: which socialist
will they elect as leader?Alberto Gonzales
and Priscilla Owen: Some conservatives are worried that Alberto Gonzales,
a possible nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, may be too liberal. Robert S. Sargent,
Jr. says they shouldn't be concernedMEHPA:
MEHPA's turning out to be like the monster that can't be killed in a horror movie.
If you don't remember what MEHPA is, Paul Weyrich says it'll soon be coming to
your state and you'll find out why it's such a danger the hard wayTake
it from a Canadian: Hillary's dream will be your nightmare!: Speculation is
mounting that Sen. Hillary Clinton will run for the Democratic nomination. Rachel
Marsden says that one of Clinton's dreams, universal health care, is reason to
hope she isn't successfulHating
America: Preemptive protests: Jackson Murphy says this past week's protests
against a possible war in Iraq weren't impressive in numbers and certainly not
in logic. They were, he writes, ignorant to today's realities Pro-lifers
must change more than the law: When it comes to political activism, the anti-abortion
movement can claim many successes. W. James Antle III says while that's fine,
the movement needs to do more Control
the language, control the debate: Israel may hold its own militarily but Avi
Davis says it's the Palestinians who are winning the worldwide war of wordsAnti-gobalization:
The left's violent assault on global prosperity: Edwin A. Locke says we should
ignore the anti-capitalist protestors and welcome global capitalism as the best
means of creating worldwide freedom and wealthSingle
federal code redux: Bruce Walker responds to W. James Antle III's and Robert
S. Sargent Jr.'s thoughts on his idea that a big federal government isn't necessarily
a bad thingThe utter waste of recycling:
Alan Caruba is of the firm opinion that the concept of recycling is nothing but
a whole lot of garbageGet rid
of the people!: Sen. Bob Graham, the man who wants to be the next American
president, is hellbent on driving hundreds families from their homes in the Everglades.
Henry Lamb tells you whySustaining
socialism: Sustainable development is nothing but socialism in disguise, says
Tom DeWeese, and one of the greatest threats to your libertyCanada's
socialist "third party": The NDP's influence in Canada: It's a popular
notion in Canada that the socialist New Democratic Party is irrelevant in Canadian
politics. Mark Wegierski says that's hardly the caseThe
hidden heroes: America's soldiers may soon be off to war and that takes a
terrible toll on their families. Joyce Mucci reviews Heroes at Home: Help and
Hope for America's Military Families, a book which helps them cope those long
absencesMaking the case for regime
change in Iraq: Carol Devine-Molin believes that there isn't much of an argument
for continuing to allow Saddam Hussein to remain in powerDrill
in ANWR, don't help terrorists: If leftists are equating the driving of SUVs
with terrorism then importing oil from Saudi Arabia can't be that much better.
Paul Walfield says that's a good reason to drill for oil from the Arctic National
Wildlife RefugeThe dangers of letting
police into our genes: Rachel Marsden isn't thrilled by the prospect that
one day soon police will be collecting DNA evidence from you even if you're innocentCongressman
Trent Franks: A freshman worth watching: Paul Weyrich says the 108th Congress
may be missing a few old faces but some of the new ones, like Trent Franks, promise
to be interestingWhen is it rape?:
The answer is no one knows. Wendy McElroy says a recent court decision means that
rape occurs anytime a women says it occurredAn
interview with Michelle Malkin: W. James Antle III interviews Michelle Malkin,
author of Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals and Other
Foreign Menaces to Our Shores, one of conservatism's favourite writersDestroying
polite fictions: Mark Steyn's The Face of the Tiger, a collection of
his columns exploring the world after September 11, 2001, has become one of Steve
Martinovich's favourite booksThe
National Referendum Act: Bruce Walker thinks one way to circumvent federal
courts, obstructionist liberals, and other troublesome institutions would be via
"National Referendum Act"The hateful legacy
of the British Foreign Office: Britain's attitudes towards Israel have always
been mixed but when it comes to the British Foreign Office, writes Avi Davis,
there is no mistaking the hostilityCapitalism
is the cure for Africa's problems: Once again parts of Africa stand on the
edge of another famine. Andrew Bernstein says that continent's problems are nothing
that a good dose of capitalism wouldn't solveThe
enemy's game plan: Michael Moriarty says the United States is playing something
akin to what Michael Douglas was in the 1997 movie The Game and the end
result won't be prettyShowdown with
Iraq and North Korea: Why is George W. Bush so focused on Iraq while seeming
to ignore North Korea? Carol Devine-Molin says there is a difference between the
two members of the axis of evilBush
looks to individuals to grow economy: Sean Hackbarth says George W. Bush's
massive tax cuts will allow Americans to pull their nation out of its current
economic funkThe conservative
case against a single federal code: A recent article by Bruce Walker on increased
centralized government continues to draw responses. This week Robert S. Sargent
Jr. takes Walker onLeftist sacrifice-a-thon:
The left is all about sacrifice these days. Unfortunately, writes Jackson Murphy,
it's you that's supposed to be the lambMake
your own explosives: Want some new ways to kill infidel Christians and Jews?
Mii Almarkaz Alisslami Alilami has thoughtfully written a guide and Jeremy Reynalds
says you can find it on the webTV network's
malfunctioning news: The impending paperback release of Bernard Goldberg's
best-selling book, Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News,
reminds Alan Caruba of the morass the mainstream media is caught inNew
Jersey's "smart guns," dead kids: Ted Lang says New Jersey wants
all handguns to be "smart" but for some reason the state can't keep
the children it cares for aliveBattling
environmentalist myths: Steve Martinovich reviews Global Warming and other
Eco-Myths a fine look at the science that disproves the environmentalist litany
of dreadWe the government: Forest
firefighting season starts now: Worrying about Iraq is all well and good but
John G. Lankford would like America's leaders to also worry about a firestorm
that's about to once again start out westThis
prison is built one person at a time: James Hall says Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
would know well the prisons that are being built in the WestNot
worth the paper they're printed on: Murray Soupcoff says the reason why international
agreements negotiated by liberals seem to always fail is because they ignore realityLiberal
moral relativist theology misses the plain truth of the Bible: Rachel Alexander
says there is a difference between liberal and conservative interpretations of
the Bible and why she explains why she believes the liberal interpretation is
wrong Bush tax cut plan will force
Manley's hand eventually: Canadians shouldn't worry, writes Walter
Robinson, the massive tax cut announced by George W. Bush will eventually force
the Liberal government to do the sameNorth
Carolina's John Edwards: Will the best debater come in second?: Paul M. Weyrich
warns Republicans not to take North Carolina Senator John Edwards lightly. The
man's message does have appeal with a huge block of votersRe-nominating
Pickering was the right choice: John Nowacki is pleased that George W. Bush
has renominated federal district judge Charles Pickering to the federal court
of appeals because he's the right man for the job Lawsuit
may redefine discrimination on campus: For years Christian campus groups have
been attacked by universities on the grounds that they discriminate by not allowing
non-Christian members. Wendy McElroy says that persecution may soon come to an
endThe conservative case for
a decentralized federal republic: Two weeks ago Bruce Walker argued for increased
centralization of government in the United States. W. James Antle III says Walker
made an eloquent case but he says there is a reason why America's Founding Fathers
crafted the system that Americans have todayPresident
Bush -- not Karl Rove -- is calling the shots: Paul Weyrich says that while
Karl Rove is a valued aide to George W. Bush he's hardly the puppet master that
the media is determined to make him out to beESR's
Seventh Annual Person of the Year: Given how many of our readers voted for
the man, it should come as no surprise who our Person of the Year for 2002 isThe
real moral superpower is America: In his latest editorial, Canadian Steve
Martinovich takes his country to task for arrogantly presuming it holds the monopoly
on acting in a moral mannerDiplomythology:
It might not be want to hear, especially if you're a parent paying for a child's
higher education, but Bruce Walker says that formal education is meant to inculcate
beliefs, not transmit knowledgeChechnya;
again and forever: Thanks to the international press the tragic story of Chechnya
still makes the evening news. That said, Michael Leverone says they aren't telling
the full storyThe franchising of
Hezbollah: Avi Davis believes that the United States, in its battle against
al-Qaida, can't ignore the prominent role that Hezbollah has played in attacks
on America and its interestsTime and
terror: The Palestinians have the best propagandists in the world working
for them: The western press. Steve Farrell says Time Magazine proved that
in their selections for the best photos of 2002"Beyond
Petroleum", Beyond the truth: British Petroleum and ExxonMobil have been
spending a lot of money lately to convince Americans they are environmentally
responsible. Alan Caruba says BP's campaign is laughableBalancing
the environmental equation: Balancing the needs of the environment with the
needs of human beings is a worthwhile endeavor. Henry Lamb argues that there is
an easy way to do bothWhat really
matters in life: Two recent articles in New York has Carol Devine-Molin
whether having it all really means having all that you canUS
sovereignty vote survey: We're still at risk: Tom DeWeese hopes the Republican
victory in November translates into a renewed defense of American sovereignty
in 2003The blessings of liberty:
Remember in this new year, writes Doug Patton, the personal freedom that you enjoy
that other people fight their whole lives forThe
Best Books of 2002: Steve Martinovich picks the books he thought were the
best of 2002What ever happened to
revolutions?: Jackson Murphy believes that a little revolution in a couple
of the world's trouble spots might just be what is neededWhy
I do not believe in revolution: A lot of people like the concept of revolution
to introduce change into a society but Daniel G. Jennings says history shows it
usually only brings tyranny and bloodshedUnsafe
safety laws: Is their such a thing as too many safety laws? After two young
men died near his home just before Christmas following the law Ted Lang believes
soTolerance.org  Where everyone's
a racist: Alanis Morissette wants you to visit a web site to learn about tolerance.
Charles F. Wickwire says if you go, prepare to be declared intolerantCoaching
football and race: Greg Pomeroy says that Tyrone Willingham's success at ESR's
beloved Notre Dame is good for football and good for America The
Raelians it rhymes with aliens: Patrick Bryson says that the Raelians,
the cult that claims to pulled off the first human cloning, reminds him more of
the old sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun complete with William Shatner playing the
role of The Big Giant HeadThe future
of fatherhood: The father's rights movement will continue to gain steam in
2003, writes Wendy McElroy, and promises to defend the rights of fathers, mothers
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EditorialBaby
Kim's secret weapon: Is it a new secret missile? A powerful new nuclear weapon?
No, John Dawson says that Kim Jong Il's secret weapon is something supplied by
AmericansDeath to dictators!:
Alan Caruba doesn't care what the doves say -- he wants dictators like Saddam
Hussein, Kim Jong Il and Muammar al-Qaddafi deadLet's
make March 5 a day to support the Bush Administration: On March 5 the anti-war
movement plans on protesting a possible war against Iraq. Jeremy Reynolds is asking
supporters of the Bush Administration to show up that dayLoony
Clooney and the Hollywood left dishonor the memory of those who served: It
used to be that the Hollywood elite served alongside their countrymen in times
of war. Today, says Doug Patton, they are like George ClooneyThe
Spanish road: William S. Lind says there is a reason why a lot of the world
is opposing the United States these days. They remember Holy Roman Emperor Charles
VDeficits and high spending can
frustrate tax cuts: W. James Antle III reports that the Bush budget makes
some of the same mistakes that previous ones did and could cause the administration
some problemsThe cost of freedom:
James Macdonald argues in A Free Nation Deep in Debt that public debt was
one of the forces responsible for democracy. Steve Martinovich finds his argument
to be impressiveThe Pander Bear:
Pander Bear is awake and he's hungry! Bruce Walker says it, like the rest of the
Democratic Party, is at risk of extinction these daysGlobal
warming: The perversion of science: You knew it had to happen. Alan Caruba
says environmentalists are using the recent snow storm in the eastern United States
as proof that global warming is occurringChicago:
The decadence of elitist cinema: The Academy may love Chicago and lavish
awards on it next month but Gennady Stolyarov II says it represents the worst
in cinemaSubsidizing the corporate green
giant: Now that everyone's attention is focused on Iraq or North Korea, says
Henry Lamb, some people are trying to take CARE of business back homeThe
UN's global malfeasance: Proponents of the United Nations say its opponents
always exaggerate the organization's dangers. Tom DeWeese responds that Kofi Annan's
public statements indicate otherwiseElder
abuse demands family solutions: As populations continue to age, writes Wendy
McElroy, the horrible crime of elder abuse will continue to increase. The solution
won't come from the governmentOn education:
Progressive decay: When it comes to the education system today, says Bernard
Chapin, it's the teachers who need to be taughtLiberal
double standards on race: Liberals are given a free pass to make any statement
on race that they like, something that conservatives cannot do and W. James Antle
III is sick and tired of itLet the U.N.
die: Is the United Nations dead? If it isn't, argues Henry Lamb, then let
it die already. It only exists now to contain the United States and not the evil
in the worldThe dark times:
Hans Blix's report to the United Nations Security Council and the resulting reaction
to it proves to Jackson Murphy that the world is drifting into darknessThe
growing rift between the US and UN: The relationship between the US and the
UN has never been a warm one but Carol Devine-Molin says it's never been worseIs
Washington playing at war?: Playing with war is like playing with fire, says
William S. Lind, and the Bush administration may find it self burnt if its not
very carefulThe time for an American Foreign
Legion: Bruce Walker says it would be a grand idea to launch an American Foreign
Legion. An AFL would promote American aims, peace and stability, and reward her
true friends with the ultimate giftMaureen
Dowd has a thought: Well, she usually has more than one but it's a specific
thought that Maureen Dowd had concerning Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida that has
Paul Walfield steamedJust say no to the
UN: It wasn't "Read my lips" that infuriated Steve Farrell, but
the elder Bush's "New World Order." Farrell says any war in Iraq must
be purely based on American interests and not United Nations concernsTaliban
as alternative lifestyle: Bernard Chapin thought he had little chance of losing
a debate with elementary school students about America's virtues until he realized
that he had walked into a trapFeminism's
tireless opponent: Steve Martinovich reviews Phyllis Schlafly's Feminist
Fantasies, proof positive that passion and facts win every battleGreen
Wealth: Funding the enemy: Who are some of the most profitable organizations
in America? Alan Caruba says you won't find them listed on a stock exchange, rather
they're lobbying government for more taxpayer fundingAmerica
needs a leader like George Washington: On President's Day, writes John Ridpath,
make sure to spare a few thoughts for America's greatest leader: George WashingtonBill
Clinton's legacy: Today's terrifying world of terror: The world is what it
is today, says Murray Soupcoff, thanks to William Jefferson Clinton. He rarely
missed an opportunity to do nothing when the day called for actionIraqi
women brutalized by Saddam: Feminists raised a bloody stink about the horrific
treatment of women in Afghanistan and it was a Republican who liberated them.
Wendy McElroy wants to know why these same feminists aren't now clamouring for
the liberation of Iraqi women The
Axis of Complete and Utter Ignorance(tm): A member profile: When it comes
to fighting terrorism, argues Rachel Marsden, Canada keeps proving that it just
doesn't get itThere is no God, and
Chomsky is his prophet: If the members of the anti-war movement are the faithful,
writes Jon Yom-Tov, then Noam Chomsky is their prophetBringing
real freedom to Cuba requires staying the course: Now more than ever, Paul
Weyrich argues, the American embargo against Cuba must stand if Cubans are to
enjoy liberty in the near futureSenate
Democrats can't get their facts straight: John Nowacki accuses Senate Democrats
of distorting the facts when it comes to the judicial nomination of Miguel EstradaThat
useless U.N.: W. James. Antle III used to believe that the United Nations
was a place where the United States could exercise world leadership. Those days
have long passedBuilding UN castles
in the sky: Tom DeWeese is amazed that not only does the United Nations want
a new skyscraper in New York, they essentially want the United States to pay for
itPoets against war are such a bore...:
Did you know that February 12 is "Poets Against War" Day? Yeah, we weren't
in the loop either. Murray Soupcoff fills everyone inThe
theory of the Lecturing Class: The world, or at least our part of it, used
to be divided into the working and leisure classes. These days, Bruce Walker says,
the world seems to be divided into the servant and lecturing classesIt's
not easy being orange: In just a few years, writes Jackson Murphy, some movie
will feature a cast member breathlessly ask the head of the Department of Homeland
Security "What colour it is?"A
conservative student's field manual: Steve Martinovich only wishes that he
had Dinesh D'Souza's Letters to a Young Conservative while he was in universityQ&A
with Dinesh D'Souza: Dinesh D'Souza sits down for a few questions about the
importance of conservatism, feminism and reparationsThe
treachery of the French: For many Americans their hatred of the French
is a relatively recent development For Samuel Blumenfeld it goes back four decadesFrance
and Germany demonstrate contempt for America: There is no other way to describe
the way the United States is being treated by her two allies in Europe, writes
Carol Devine-Molin, then contemptThe
great hydrogen myth: What does Alan Caruba think of George W. Bush's push
for hydrogen powered cars? The science doesn't support the spending of billions
of dollars on what is a pipe dreamPeter
Paul & Hillary: Will it be a case of the little guy taking the fall?:
Will the Clinton era ever end? Paul Weyrich reports on Larry Klayman's efforts
to pursue charges against Bill and Hillary Clinton over fundraising irregularitiesKilling
us gently: A lot of people are worried about external threats to the United
States. Henry Lamb says they would also keep an eye peeled out for more homegrown
threats A just war in Iraq?: Will
a war against Iraq be a just war? Steve Farrell says according to religious writings,
U.S. President George W. Bush is in the right The
Nazi background of Saddam Hussein: Any time someone declares that Saddam Hussein
is no different than Adolph Hitler they are accused of being propagandistic. Charles
A. Morse says the accusers don't know what they are talking aboutThe
cheating heart: With the murder trial of Clara Harris in the news, Wendy McElroy
decides to take a look at adultry and what it meansWhy
we go "out there": Why do we risk our lives to explore the universe
around us? Alan Caruba says it is because we are a species that must find out
what is over the next hillOn the
fence on Iraq: W. James Antle III is no longer opposed outright to an invasion
of Iraq but he says there are still a lot of questions the Bush administration
needs to answer before he gets onsideTotally
tubular: Never was the humble aluminum tube ever the subject of such debate.
Jackson Murphy says when it comes to believing Iraq or the U.S. on what Saddam
Hussein wanted to use 60 000 tubes for, he sides with the U.S.Giving
in to North Korean nuclear blackmail would encourage nuclear proliferation:
David T. Pyne believes it's vital not to give in to North Korea's blackmail given
recent history and possible future developmentsSingle
Federal Code redux - Part three or how to make states sovereign again: Bruce
Walker wraps up his series of articles advocating a single federal code with a
look at how to make states more powerfulThe
Transportation Security Administration: A report card: Dallas Pierce judges
how well the government is actually checking all of this suitcases and handbags
that pour through America's major airports every dayThe
right man at the right time: If you are expecting a salacious tell all from
David Frum's The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush,
writes Carol Devine-Molin, you'd best look elsewhere. As an insider's account,
however, it's among the bestA
dividing line in Israeli history: Avi Davis says last week's election victory
by Ariel Sharon and Likud in Israel may be a watershed moment in that nation's
historyJust plain racism: Paul
Walfield doesn't think much of recent remarks by Nelson Mandela accusing George
W. Bush of racism and America of committing "unspeakable atrocities"Marching
toward oblivion: Recent events at the United Nations prove, says Henry Lamb,
that the international body is rapidly becoming irrelevantCanada,
wake up your freedom, liberty and privacy are vanishing: Walter Robinson
argues that the liberties that Canadians enjoy are rapidly disappearing thanks
to the federal government and proposed legislation like its campaign finance reform
Dodge City?: Anti-firearms rights
advocates love to proclaim America's city's aren't Dodge City and Americans don't
need guns. Dr. Michael R. Bowen says we'd be a lot better off if cities were
like Dodge CityCan radio worth listening
to be saved?: Paul Weyrich received a present this past Christmas that he
hopes will be the future of radio: the XM satellite radio and receiverFarmers
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victory: Bruce Walker urges the democracies of the world not to make the same
mistake they've made before when they were were satisfied with less than total
victoryConfessions of a supply-side
deficit hawk: W. James Antle III says there are extremes to be avoided on
either side in the battle between Keynesians and supply-sidersThe
birth of the conservative movement: - Steve Martinovich finds William F. Buckley
Jr.'s latest novel, Getting It Right, an enjoyable and informative readA
history of hate: Pierre Birnbaum's The Anti-Semitic Moment: A Tour of France
in 1898 isn't perfect but Steve Martinovich says overlook some minor flaws
and pick up this study of French anti-Semitism in the wake of the Dreyfus affairMen
at war: Steve Martinovich was truly impressed by All Day Permanent Red:
The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad - Rewritten, Christopher Logue's
ongoing project to rewrite The IliadThe
thieves of Baghdad: Who stole all the treasures in the Iraqi National Museum?
Jackson Murphy says the question is important, but not the most important one
to come out of the warAmerican parasites:
Charles Bloomer has a real problem with people who live off the fat of America
but continue to criticize itGreens
and animal rights activists attack America: America may have defeated one
enemy but Alan Caruba says there are others closer to home that continue their
war against the stateSome thoughts
on the (not so) new campus radicals: It used to be that students led the way
when it came to radicals but now it's the teachers. Joseph Bressano discusses
the effect that they are havingIraqi
immigration: Charles F. Wickwire believes that immigration may hold the secret
for the future of Iraq and the entire Middle EastHoly
Land Institute for the Deaf: Pioneers in education for the deaf: Jeremy Reynalds
reports on the good work being carried out by Brother Andrew de Carpentier and
Holy Land Institute for the Deaf in JordanConservatives:
Tuning in, turning on, and dropping out: Linda A. Prussen-Razzano is pleased
that conservatives are increasingly dropping out of a mainstream culure that insults
and denigrates themIn defense of fast
food: David Veksler argues that Iraqis have better things to fear than the
invasion of the mighty Big MacBig auto
blackmail: What's next a minister of minivans?: Walter Robinson is urging
the Canadian government not to given into the big auto companies and provide them
with hundreds of millions in subsidiesWar
may redefine gun control: Besides free Iraqis, the war in Iraq may also led
many American women to rethink their support of gun control, writes Wendy McElroyThe
end of the beginning: Many are celebrating what appears to be the end of the
war in Iraq. Steve Martinovich cautions that the end of a greater war is still
far awayMisunderstanding free speech:
It's something that people, especially on the left, just don't seem to understand.
Charles Bloomer says criticizing someone's viewpoints is not censorship or infringing
upon free speechThe Nazism of Abu
Mazen: Mahmoud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen, the future prime minister of the Palestinian
Authority has a past no one seems to want to talk about. Charles A. Morse explainsApril
15 is the real April Fool's Day: W. James Antle III says the real pranks and
jokes come on April 15, a day where taxpayers are fooledNo
blood for Congo?: Peace activists talk a good talk about the Iraqi war so
Steve Martinovich is wondering why they haven't started protesting against the
slaughter happening in CongoAmerica's
best ambassadors: Our troops: For years the Muslim world has looked at the
west with disdain...and not without some reason. Daniel G. Jennings says America's
soldiers may change some attitudesAmeriphobia:
Can you imagine if France was the most powerful nation in the world? Bruce Walker
says there is no reason to be afraid of America's powerHow
do you like them apples?: The war in Iraq has been good news for a lot of
people, says Jackson Murphy, well, all except for the mediaThe
liberal industrial complex: Yet another liberal writer has attacked the so-called
military industrial complex. Michael Leverone says Bob Herbert should write about
what he knows aboutWhy we must discuss
a post-war U.S.: Everyone keeps talking about what Iraq will be like after
the war but Wendy McElroy says it's just as important to ask that question about
the United StatesMore hilarity
at the United Nations: Is there anyone with a jot of sense who thinks it would
be a good idea for the UN to lead the way in rebuilding Iraq? Linda A. Prussen-Razzano
says Iraq proved the UN's irrelevanceOffer
Syria the same deal we gave Iraq: Doug Patton believes that we should pull
a George Patton and consider letting the U.S. military go on to SyriaThe
NDP's loony left and international terrorism: Canada's New Democrats continue
to be a home for a unique brand of leftists. Joseph Bressano says that shows in
their support for a terrorist organizationState
Farm v. Campbell: Good results, bad jurisprudence: Robert S. Sargent, Jr.
believes there needs to be a cap on excessive punitive damages but a recent Supreme
Court decision mandating just that was wrongThe
SARS hoopla: Carol Devine-Molin says there are some big questions about the
SARS virus that people need to be answered but we shouldn't think of its outbreak
as the end of the worldStop the discrimination
now!: The American government would dream of telling people where they could
live so Ariel Natan Pasko is wondering why it's deciding where Jews in the Middle
East call homeIt is good to be a
conservative: These are good days to be a conservative, says Alan Caruba.
There is plenty of work yet to be done and the Republicans are the party to get
things completedA call for a new faction
... one which might very well do America proud: Daniel Ryan believes that
America needs a new faction to promote, one that promises to do better than the
failures of the past centuryThe Democrats:
Just what do they stand for?: If the war on Iraq has shown anything, writes
Paul M. Weyrich, it's that the Democrats seem to have no greater purpose than
to complain about everythingIs Syria
next?: Saddam Hussein's days are clearly numbered. Who may be the next to
fall? Alan Caruba says that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is increasingly looking
like a man with fear in his eyes. He has good reason to be afraidThe
war on terrorism: Who's next? Henry Lamb writes that the war on terrorism
means that any nation that sponsors or aids terrorists is a targetWhen
the home front is a front: Ordinary life in wartime Brooklyn Heights:
America is at war, writes Robert Bové, and you can see it in Brooklyn Heights,
a place as far away from Baghdad as you can getJohn
Kerry's war for U.S. regime change: John Kerry's race for the Democratic nomination
has led him to take some dubious stands concerning the war in Iraq, says W. James
Antle IIISaddam's regime is folding fast:
It's all over but the crying. Carol Devine-Molin says we'd best be prepared for
the post-Hussein era in IraqOutside
the political spectrum: A conversation with Jacob Sullum: Bernard Chapin talks
with Reason senior editor Jacob Sullum about the libertarian movement's
best known magazine, the war on drugs and where libertarians stand on the political
spectrumPropagating American values:
Bruce Walker believes that one of the reasons the world seems to hate America
is because no one is promoting American values overseasConservatism
against the Radical Right: We're ready for the hate mail. Scott Shore says
there is war within the conservative movement and the radical right must lose
if conservatism is to have a futureA
guide to how we feel: Paul Ekman is a pioneer in the field of non-verbal emotional
communication and Steve Martinovich says that shows in Emotions Revealed: Recognizing
Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional LifeThe
UN's power path: Greening the globe: Think the United Nations is dead because
it lost out over Iraq? Tom DeWeese says the UN continues to promote its anti-freedom
agendaRights, privileges and knowing
the difference: There are a whole lot of Americans, argues Paul Walfield,
that don't know the differenceLeftist
feminists using war as podium: Although a majority of Americans are in support
of the Iraqi war, it is creating some division. Wendy McElroy says the feminist
movement is ensuring that it can capitalizeDr.
Helen Caldicott spits on my grandfather: One feminist trying to capitalize
on those divisions is Dr. Helen Caldicott, who in the process of being opposed
to the war in Iraq managed to slander generations of American men, including Glenn
Sacks' grandfatherKyoto in generic packaging
: The Senate Energy Bill's Title XI: Like a vampire the Kyoto Protocol refuses
to die. Paul M. Weyrich says the Senate's Energy Bill contains a provision that
would revive it yet againSenate Democrats:
Taking judicial confirmations to new lows: When it comes to judicial nominations,
writes John Nowacki, nothing has changed for Senate Democrats. They still continue
to obstruct the process for political reasonsThe
militant peace movement: Bruce Walker has some questions about the peace movement,
specifically the militant brand you see shouting slogans instead of explaining
their positionDaniel Patrick Moynihan,
R.I.P.: Liberal though he was, W. James Antle III says that Daniel Patrick
Moynihan was a rarity in politics: he was an honourable manLaying
down 'the White Woman's Burden': It's popular to portray women in the Muslim
world as captives of the burqa but Wendy McElroy
says the truth is a little more complicatedLying
in protest: Trevor Bothwell doesn't have a problem who are against the war
in Iraq for sincere reasons. He is annoyed, however, by people who ought to know
betterPop music in a time of war:
Sean Hackbarth isn't a big fan of most of the music being produced about the war
in Iraq. The songs are usually childish or insulting -- and that goes for both
sidesNews 24/7: Phillip J. Hubbell
considers the news coverage of the war to be less than impressive. How many times
can you report the exact same thing?The
muddled message of the liberal media: Many people are lauding the media's
coverage of the war in Iraq but Carol Devine-Molin is no fanIs
Bush putting the skids to the UN?: Alan Caruba has a sneaking suspicion that
U.S. President George W. Bush aims to pull off another regime change...one located
in New YorkWhat's next for the U.N.:
For a good reason as to why Bush is freezing out the UN, writes Henry Lamb, you
only have to look at its actionsShame
on Amnesty International and the rest of the morally-challenged leftists:
We'd say that Murray Soupcoff was at a loss for words to detail his outrage at
Amnesty International and its peers but we're taking about Murray Soupcoff hereA
modest suggestion: Robert S. Sargent Jr. has an idea for Social Security Administration
that he believes the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan would have given the thumbs
upReading is for lovers!: Educator
Bernard Chapin believes that there is nothing more beautiful than the pleasure
of reading the printed wordMinister
Collenette visits Stupid Investments R Us: Since David Collenette was appointed
transport minister, says Walter Robinson, Canada's airline industry has hit some
major turbulenceSecretary Chao: Demanding
transparency from unions can start a revolution: When the final list of most
effective cabinet members of the current Bush administration is crafted, expect
to see Elaine Chao's name high on that list, writes Paul WeyrichFarmers
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EditorialEconomic conservatives think small,
declaring victory and going home: Economic conservatives are hailing
the tax cut passed by Congress but W. James Antle III wonders if they are
perhaps being a little too enthusiasticWhy I'm a con-con: Last
week W. James Antle III wrote about the lack of "con-cons" --
constitutional conservatives. Robert S. Sargent, Jr. says he belongs
to the con-con clubThe curious case of the disappearing
nation: Jackson Murphy reacts to a Time Magazine cover story
asking if anyone would notice if Canada simply disappeared from the face
of the planetHope is dead: That's the
message that David Grossman has in Death as a Way of Life: Israel Ten
Years After Oslo when it comes to the possibility of peace between
Israelis and Palestinians. Steve Martinovich reviews this difficult set
of essaysA story of friendship:
Even being a New York Mets fan couldn't stop Steve Martinovich from being
touched by David Halberstam's The Teammates which recounts the
friendship of Bobby Doerr, Dominic DiMaggio, John Pesky and Ted WilliamsOutflanking Democrats on
gerrymandering: When it comes to the issue of gerrymandering Bruce
Walker says the Republicans should give Democrats one of two choicesToo far east is west: Carol
Devine-Molin isn't impressed by one brand of conservatism that has gone
so far to attack other conservatives that they have in effect left the
movementGrassroots conservatism, hurrah!:
What goes on at a conservative conference? Bernard Chapin says nothing
but good old-fashioned patriotic funAl-Qaida and the "Nutty Professor":
It takes a lot to be nominated as the writer of the silliest piece of fiction
but Bill King believes that a SUNY-Binghamton professor may have not only
done that but won the contest as wellCultivating Iraqi lackeys: It
didn't take long but the anti-Americanism of the American left has made
its way to Iraq, says Peyton KnightU.N. influence in Alabama:
What's the United Nations doing in Alabama? If you have to ask, you haven't
been reading Enter Stage Right long enough. Henry Lamb reportsThe growing threat to religious
freedoms: Gary Schneider reports on proposed Canadian legislation that
will make it difficult for religions to promote their moral beliefs, legislation
that could one day make its way to the United StatesThe pharaohs and kings are gone:
but their taxes remain: Walter Robinson says that Canadians have had
it with property taxes that don't seem to have any connection to realityWhat happens when Chief Justice
Rehnquist decides to hang up his robes?: That question may demand an
answer soon. Paul Weyrich lays out what he believes George W. Bush ought
to do when the inevitable day comesThe need for conservative and
libertarian arts funding: The right has been traditionally opposed
to arts funding and Thomas M. Sipos says that means we have little to offer
the popular culture. It's time we built an infrastructure to support the
artists on the rightHighest common denominator:
An interview with John Derbyshire: Bernard Chapin chats with National
Review contributing editor John Derbyshire about conservatism, the
culture war and math. Don't let that last word scare youCalling all con-cons: Revive constitutional
conservatism: There are a thousand flavors of conservatives, writes
W. James Antle III, and people are proud of their labels. The problem?
He wants to know where the constitutional conservatives areAir power: Visiting the White House
is one thing, writes Kenneth T. Walsh, but being on board Air Force One
is quite another. He explores the famous aircraft in Air Force One:
A History of the Presidents and their Planes and Steve Martinovich
reviews his effortsWhat happened to seriousness?:
The post September 11 world was supposed to be a serious one, writes Jackson
Murphy, but it's turning out to be anything butBill Bennett, conservatives and
gambling: Bruce Walker isn't shocked by the Bill Bennett gambling story.
He believes that conservatives are gamblers at heart and history shows
thatThe meaning of Jayson Blair:
Kimberley Jane Wilson reflects on the scandal over at the New York
Times and what it means to us allEducating anarchists: Alan
Caruba argues that teachers today seem more interested having their students
drugged and learning marginal information to actually educating themWhen will we take American education
seriously?: Trevor Bothwell isn't convinced that anyone in the education
system, regardless of what side your desk faces in the classroom, really
takes their job seriouslyNotes from Canada about education:
Tuition tax credits could be a vehicle for true pluralism in Ontario:
The Canadian educational scene isn't all that healthy either. Mark Wegierski
looks at Ontario government's attempts to fix the system with tax creditsThe Saudis lack accountability
on terrorism: Carol Devine-Molin finds it hard to take Saudi efforts
at fighting terrorism seriouslyThe road map to Hell: As the
title of the essay suggests, Scott Shore doesn't think much of the peace
plan currently making the rounds in the Middle EastDemocracy in the Middle East:
Ariel Natan Pasko takes a quick tour of the Middle East to see who's really
interested in protecting the rights of citizens and minoritiesMisunderstanding evil: To heck
with root causes and all the other reasons the left uses to explain terrorism.
Murray Soupcoff says he's perfectly comfortable to use the world evilCastro and the intellectuals:
Recent repression in Cuba has Fidel Castro warning the world's intellectuals
not to against the family, reports Bill KingThe government says you're fat:
If the jihad against tobacco wasn't bad enough the American government
now wants to tell you how to eat, writes Tom DeWeeseLawyers in your medicine cabinet
may keep needed drugs out: Edmund F. Haislmaier argues that trial lawyers
and their lawsuits may keep drugs that you need out of reach because of
alleged side effectsCut men: Do they not bleed?:
Wendy McElroy urges people not to put up with male bashing. Why should
men be singled out for insults that no one else would be subjected to?The one-man global content
provider: It's no secret that Steve Martinovich is a fan of columnist
Mark Steyn so you shouldn't be surprised he was thrilled to land an interview
with him. And we didn't even have to have Steyn naked on the coverThe Conservative-Libertarian clash:
Values and the free society: The war between conservatism and liberalism
continues unabated but what interests W. James Antle III is the other war:
the one that occasionally flares up between conservatives and libertariansFinlandization is fine:
Finlandization was a dirty concept during the Cold War but Bruce Walker
takes another look at it to see what applicability it could have todayThe other epidemic: West Nile
Fever: Alan Caruba argues that everyone is so preoccupied with SARS
that they're forgetting West Nile Fever, a virus that has actually killed
AmericansTime to get behind missile defense:
Canada has been hinting that it may get onboard with America's proposed
missile defense system. Steve Martinovich says it's about timeCapturing the modern woman:
The modern woman faces huge pressures in her life, something that Linda
A. Prussen-Razzano says Danielle Crittenden's novel Amanda Bright@home illustrates
quite wellA man's life: Jim
Keeble's novel Men and Other Mammals explores a world that Steve
Martinovich knows well: the world of the single man in his early 30sSimpler cooking for sunny
days: Nigella Lawson is back with Forever Summer, a collection
of summer recipes, and Steve Martinovich can't wait for the warm weather
to arrive"I fear my own government
more than the terrorists": Paul Walfield responds to a recent MSNBC
editorial by Jill Nelson, one which she truly goes off the deep endIs there an innocent explanation
for apparent 60 Minutes lie?: During a recent 60 Minutes expose, a
woman detailed her work in hunting down groups in the United States that
supported terrorist activity. All good, says Jeremy Reynalds, except for
one thingThe unscrupulous United Nations:
Several recent news stories has underline the fact for Carol Devine-Molin
that the United Nations is a dodgy organization at bestThe boom in home school
conventions: How do you know when something is taking off? The appearance
of conventions. Samuel L. Blumenfeld takes a look at home school conventionsAn African-American switch for the
GOP: Robert S. Sargent. Jr. says the example of Ola Lewis shows that
outreach to the African-American community is hardly wastedHyping hydrogen: The energy scam:
Not long ago Alan Caruba argued that the "hydrogen economy" was
a big money pit. The experts, it turns out, agree with himWhy liberals are such a bore:
Despite their reputations for being fun people at parties, Scott Shore
argues that liberals are really boring when you think about it.The struggle for America's soul:
People like Tom Daschle, writes Henry Lamb, represent a group that has
a radically different view of the United States from the Bush Administration,
argues Henry LambWomen with guns fight back:
John Walsh may be a friend to police officers, writes Wendy McElroy, but
he did nothing but set up three women who are law-abiding firearms owners
on his talk show recentlyBalkanization is good:
Two years after he first argued it in this magazine, Bruce Walker still
believes that Balkanization is more of a help than a hindrance to world
politics. A casual look at history shows that it often helps the oppressedWorld class Spectator:
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.: Bernard Chapin talks with R. Emmett Tyrrell,
Jr., a man who justifiably deserves the title of "Hardest Working
Conservative in America"You've got to know when to fold
'em: Lessons for Bill Bennett: W. James Antle III responds to the news
that William J. Bennett is not only one of the chief proponents of traditional
morality, but a big loser in high stakes gamblingThe Muslim's world future is
freedom: Is the Islamic world doomed to dictatorship and violence?
Noah Feldman argues in After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic
Democracy that it isn't. Steve Martinovich reviews his effortsDon't take John Boyd's name in vain:
William S. Lind warns those who are arguing that Col. John Boyd's lessons
on modern warfare have been successfully implemented in the American military
machine that they could be wrongLauding the Bush team and
our military: For Carol Devine-Molin the carrier landing by the Navy
S-3B Viking jet containing George W. Bush last week neatly encapsulates
the kind of person she wants holding the reins of powerIf one Iran is bad enough, then
two will be double trouble: Paul M. Weyrich is beginning to wonder
if the United States should have first struck at Iran given the anti-American
protests in IraqThe roadmap to nowhere: The
recent bombing in Tel Aviv signals to Alan Caruba that the latest roadmap
to peace between the Israelis and Palestinians is a dead endIraqi Communists partying once
again: The fall of Hussein regime has allowed an Iraqi communist newspaper
to once again publish. Surprise, surprise, says Bill King, they're as clueless
as our leftistsBeware the siren call for UN "reform":
A lot of people are talking about reforming the United Nations in the wake
of its failure over Iraq. Tom DeWeese says don't believe their hypeNo oil for food: Wendy McElroy
believes that the United Nations shouldn't be running the charitable programs
that will help get Iraq back on its feetThe world's biggest shell
game: Infectious Greed: How deceit and risk corrupted the financial
markets attempts to explain how scandals like Enron and Global Crossing
came to be. Steve Martinovich thinks it's a winnerFederal accounting failures:
Enron's looks like small change: More than a few people thought it
was hypocritical to drag the CEOs of companies like Enron and WorldCom
in front of Senate hearings to explain alleged accounting frauds. Joseph
J. DioGuardi explains whyMysterious decline: Where are
the men on campus?: Philip W. Cook and Glenn Sacks attempt to answer
the question that everyone seems to be ignoring: Why are the number of
men attending college and university falling so fast?Senate hard-liners start new
filibuster: Continuing to trash two centuries of precedent: The Democrats
continue to obstruct the confirmation of George W. Bush's judicial nominees,
this time adding Priscilla Owen's name to the listThe new conservative divide: Paleocons
versus neocons: The conservative family isn't very happy these days.
Rachel Alexander says that a schism has opened up between two prominent
wingsA new GI Bill: Small government
proponents won't like the idea but Bruce Walker believes that a new G.I.
Bill might have the same positive benefits the post-Second World War version
didAn interview with Richard
John Neuhaus: Bernard Chapin discusses religion, politics and society
with First Things editor in chief Father Richard John NeuhausForget people, let's argue about
politics!: Man may be a political animal but W. James Antle III is
tired of the injection of politics in every aspect of life. Sometimes things
transcend politicsPreserving a human future: It's
not a grandslam but Steve Martinovich thinks Bill McKibben's Enough:
Staying Human in an Engineered Age is a good prod for society to begin
debating the ethics of some advanced technologiesAmerica's fascination with the
Peterson case: Carol Devine-Molin ponders America's fascination with
the man who allegedly killed his wife and unborn childSARS, Red China, and the future:
Alan Caruba argues that the SARS outbreak confirms that China's leadership
is still more concerned with power than good governanceCastro's cocky gamble: Cuban
dictator Fidel Castro rolled the dice last month in the belief your attention
was completely on the war in Iraq. Steven Fantina says it looks like he
wonThe "compelling state interest" test:
It's a phrase you hear a lot in major court cases -- "compelling state
interest" -- and Robert S. Sargent Jr. explains why its used by
judges and what it really meansPETA – People Exhibiting Terrible
Attributes: Some things don't change. Over the past couple of months,
writes Paul Walfield, PETA has been up to its old publicity seeking tricksA modest tax cut: Doing away
with withholding: If you want to see real tax cuts, says Kevin Gabriel,
you should change how people pay their taxesPresident Bush's judicial nominees
represent a legacy worth fighting for: Paul M. Weyrich believes that
George W. Bush should concentrate on his judicial nominees being confirmed
rather than his tax cutting agendaOn May Day celebrate capitalism:
Global capitalism is the best means of creating worldwide freedom and wealth,
writes Edwin A. LockeWho's next? Laying bets on the next
regime to fall: Most people seem to be putting money on Syria to be
the next to be targeted in the war against terrorism but John Nowacki thinks
it might be one of America's old enemies insteadThe war is not over: Judging
by Scott Shore, America's to-do list is a lengthy one if it wants to win
the war against international terrorism and its supporting statesWar and diplomacy after Iraq:
Joseph Bressano says that while America's military victory in Iraq was
astounding, people shouldn't forget that the carrot of diplomacy is also
a valuable toolAfter Saddam, what?: Steven D.
Laib argues that the Iraqi people now need to liberate themselves from
ideologies and beliefs that have done nothing but enslave themNow the real war starts: Americans
weary of the short Iraqi war had better not read William S. Lind's latest
essay saying that the United States may be far from declaring victoryOnly one minority needs representation
in Iraq's new government: The individual: This week the United States
will likely announce an interim government for Iraq. Robert W. Tracinski
hopes that it focuses its benefits on any society's building block minorityAutomobile conspiracies: Daniel
G. Jennings is becoming more than a little tired of the theory that everyone
is conspiring to kill off rail transit in the U.S. People who believe that
are like conservatives of the 1950sThe great lie: Wendy McElroy
believes the "woman as victim" has done more damage to women then the
things that women are afraid ofFarmers for Freedom
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EditorialThe quandary of compassionate conservatism:
The mantra of compassionate conservativism has allowed the Republican Party
to steal some of the Democrat's thunder, argues W. James Antle III, but it
also threatens to damage the party over the long termThe case for an African-American Political
Party: Do African-Americans need their own political party? Bruce Walker
says it would give the black community much more power and stop their reliance
on the ineffectual DemocratsAmerican governor: California's
total recall: Jackson Murphy mulls over the potential star power that
we could see in the race to replace Gray Davis as governor of California.
Snoop Dogg anyone?The missing link: The New
York Times is asking where the proof is that Osama bin Laden and Saddam
Hussein were conspiring together. Robert S. Sargent, Jr. says that proof
has already appeared in the mainstream mediaSons of dogs: Forget the critics,
writes Carol Devine-Molin, the deaths of Saddam Hussein's sons is a major
victory for Iraqis and the American-led war against the former dictatorSeptember 11 could have been prevented
only by having a principled foreign policy: Onkar Ghate says America's
intelligence services weren't to blame for September 11, 2001 but rather
an unprincipled foreign policyTime for Canada to disengage
from Iran: Owen Rathbone believes that recent events in Iran should
show Canada that its policy of engagement with the theocratic regime has
led to a dead endIs Iran next?: William S. Lind
warns the United States of adding Iran to its to-do list unless it wants
a war that it doesn't want or is equipped to fightThe BBC gets its man: The BBC set
out to nail the British government over claims of weapons of mass destruction
but their ultimate victim, says Murray Soupcoff, was David Kelly and the
truthThe faith-based initiative is a Trojan
Horse: Tom DeWeese argues that George W. Bush's faith-based initiative
may have been designed to move charity to the private sector but it will
also do a lot of damage to those groupsThe Declaration Philosophy: Part
III – The protection of rights: Linda A. Prussen-Razzano continues
her look at the philosophy behind the Declaration of Independence with
the third in a series of essaysLight'm up until the UN says you
can't: Are the men in the black helicopters coming after smokers next?
Alan Caruba says we can thank in part George W. Bush for that possibilityCongress let U.S. down:
Congress had two opportunities to send a message to the United Nations
in July, writes Henry Lamb, and it failed to do so both timesArt: Put your money where your mouth
is: Conservatives talk a good talk about allowing the free market to
reward good artists but Mathew Kay says they haven't translated that thought
into actionAmerica and the Democratic Party
could use a man like Harry Truman again: If the Democratic Party wants
to mount serious opposition to the Republicans, says Daniel G. Jennings,
then finding a candidate that reminds people of Harry Truman wouldn't be
a bad ideaProtecting the privacy of the law-abiding
citizens: The Terrorism Information Awareness program may look dead
right now but Steve Lilienthal says the program is like a vampire. You
have to keep the stake in itFalse rape charges hurt real
victims: Whether Kobe Bryant is ultimately found guilty of rape or
not, writes Wendy McElroy, a lot of men find themselves falsely accused
and their lives ruinedBrazil: Trouble in Lula-land:
The good news is that Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hasn't taken Brazil down
the Marxist path like everyone thought he would. The bad news? Bill King
says that Lula is being threatened on his left by radicals and that could
spell his demise in the comings weeksConfession: I am in love with Dr.
Condoleezza Rice: Alan Caruba joins a growing list of ESR staffers
who are totally smitten with George W. Bush's National Security advisorHow to find a Democrat – still:
Kentucky governor is mired in a bit of a scandal, says Bruce Walker, but
the media seems intent on not telling you his party affiliationCan Dean take the heat?: Howard
Dean likes to present himself as a centrist but Paul Weyrich argues that
the former Vermont governor is little more than a liberal wearing sheep's
clothingLiving constitution, dying republic:
W. James Antle III says that recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court
don't read like neutral applications of the law as it is written and understoodDred Scott, Roe v. Wade,
and state's rights: Robert S. Sargent Jr. argues that the injustice
visited upon Dred Scott should serve as a lesson to those who believe in
abortionBang, bang, my baby shot me down…:
Tom DeWeese believes there is no reason to ban toy guns just because
a seven-year old walked into a store and announced he was holding up
the placeJohnny Depp, pirate of St. Tropez:
Another day and another American Hollywood celebrity throwing down at the
land of his birth. Paul Walfield isn't very impressed with recent comments
made by actor Johnny DeppAcoustic Wellbutrin: If you
need a pick-me-up, writes Bernard Chapin, you could hardly do worse than
The Strokes' 2001 album This Is ItComplexities of federal data
mining: With the power of data mining, argues Steve Lilienthal, the
federal government will be able to make a lot of assumptions about you
and some of them could cost youThe medical liability crisis
affects us all: Americans like to believe that medical malpractice
woes and lawsuits are a problem for doctors to live with but Edmund F.
Haislmaier says that's short-sighted thinkingMounting troop casualties are
the real concern: While the media is concerned about "16 words" Carol
Devine-Molin says the real story is the mounting number of American casualties
in IraqAmerican exceptionalism:
A letter to a leftist friend: Patrick O'Hannigan responds to a constant
stream of emails from a friend about what the United States represents
todayDeath of the CBL: If you weren't
aware of it, Canada had it's own national baseball league. Well, they will
until their version of an all star game this week. Jackson Murphy wonders
why anyone botheredDon't expel Arafat 2: The rerun:
The Israeli government is once again hinting at expelling Yasser Arafat.
Ariel Natan Pasko says the chances of that happening are nil and Arafat
will always escape troubleThe New Yorker and the facts:
When it comes to the changes that the American military is going through
these days William S. Lind says the New Yorker doesn't know the
factsFeminists slurping at the
public trough: If you want to see how feminists try and avoid criticism,
writes Wendy McElroy, all you have to do is look at Canada and the example
of Pierrette BouchardTrouble on the right? Bush and
his conservative base: George W. Bush may look unbeatable for 2004
right now but that could change easily. W. James Antle III says the conservative
wing of the Republican Party is become increasingly disenchanted with their
presidentThe 16 word gamble: If the
Democrats and those opposed to the war in Iraq really believe that 16 words
will bring down the Bush presidency Jackson Murphy thinks they're deludedDemocrats spin intel factor:
Considering that George Tenet has taken the blame and British PM Tony Blair
continues to defend the assertion that Iraq attempted to obtain enriched
uranium, Carol Devine-Molin doesn't think much of the Democrats' latest
causeThe rise and fall of Jorg
Haider: Lothar Hobelt's Defiant Populist: Jorg Haider and the Politics
of Austria explores who the controversial Austrian politician is and
how he achieved prominence. Steve Martinovich reviews his effortsWhen Castro dies and Cuba lives:
Bruce Walker envisions the day when U.S. President George W. Bush can visit
a free Cuba, one that will be an inspiration to the rest of Latin AmericaA campaign for liberty: The
Liberian occupation: Gennady Stolyarov II would support an American-led
occupation of Liberia if it would answer certain issues and not just be
another example of wrong-headed altruismThose whom the gods would
destroy...: Liberia may be a worse hellhole than New Jersey, says William
S. Lind, but that doesn't mean that the United States has a duty to send
in soldiers to keep the peaceInternational Criminal Court or international
mischief?: The fact that the International Criminal Court may soon
indict British PM Tony Blair for his participation in the Iraq war proves,
argues Tom DeWeese, the U.S. made the right decision to withdraw from the
1998 Rome StatuteIsrael, stay out of "entangling
alliances": In both Europe and Israel there's growing talk of
the Jewish state joining the European Union. Ariel Natan Pasko believes
that's a very bad ideaThe indigence industry:
It's become so bad in Canada, writes Audra Mitchell, that even the homeless
go on strike in the belief that they are owed money by the rest of societyThe many faces of Barney Frank:
There are many things you can say about Barney Frank but Charles Morse
says common sense isn't one of themProtecting bears, not people:
In New Jersey animal rights activists are working overtime to protect bears
but Alan Caruba says it's the people who are at riskEarth worshippers cause death
in space: Former NASA flight controller Hannes Hacker says that environmentalists
bare part of the blame for the Shuttle Columbia disasterGreens beat the bushes: It
isn't only politicians who are awaiting 2004. Henry Lamb explains that
environmental organizations will throw all their efforts into beating George
W. BushNow which is the party of the people?:
Jeremy Reynolds argues that the defeat of legislation that would have capped
damage awards in medical malpractice cases shows who the Democrats really
representPreparing tomorrow's conservative
leaders: Paul M. Weyrich says there are several conservative academics
which may point to the future of America's higher education systemThe cost of the 'ethical'
assault on honest businessmen: Yaron Brook and Alex Epstein argue that
far from targeting criminals, George W. Bush's war on business corruption
has painted all businessmen and women with the same brushHollywood: Comic book heroes
count more than the U.S. military: In the twisted world of Hollywood
Daniel Jennings says there's more concern about portraying fictional comic
book heroes respectfully than there is of portraying American soldiers
the same wayThe PCspeak of diversity: The
language of "diversity" is nothing more than a modern version
of George Orwell's Newspeak, writes Wendy
McElroyOn Liberia: Intervention for me,
but not for thee: Just months after America was decried by some for
being imperialist for invading Iraq in the interests of American national
security, W. James Antle III says those same people are now demanding American
intervention in LiberiaKeating on the Court: Whoever
is the next nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court is going to face a fierce
battle. Bruce Walker argues that nominating Frank Keating would blunt most
of the weapons the Democrats would useAIA v. Garamendi, another step
backwards: Everybody has been discussing two major U.S. Supreme Court
decisions dealing with racial preferences and anti-sodomy laws but Robert
S. Sargent Jr. is wondering why AIA v. Garamendi is being ignoredA passion for life and flight:
Alberto Santos-Dumont wasn't the first person to fly an airplane but Steve
Martinovich says that doesn't detract from Paul Hoffman's Wings of
Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of FlightRace strikes out: Jackson
Murphy says there is a simple reason why baseball is becoming less racially
diverse -- at least when it comes to the number of African-Americans on
club rosters -- and it's due to a change in managerial strategyStriking a seal on asbestos:
For once Sen. Orrin Hatch's talents for compromise may actually do something
positive. Amy Ridenour says that Hatch's efforts to end the asbestos lawsuit
lottery may pay offThe rise and fall of Canada’s
only conservative magazine: J. L. Jackson mourns
the loss of The Report, Canada's only conservative print magazine
passed away late last monthConservative radio host set to challenge
Barney Frank: Samuel L. Blumenfeld says that ESR contributor
Charles Morse is about to take on one of the toughest political challenges:
knocking off Barney FrankPaine's prophetic dream:
Steve Farrell argues that America's Founding Fathers weren't just products
of the European Enlightenment. They also had deep religious beliefsOur capitalist economy, our socialist
government: Alan Caruba says the socialists have won. Everything that
they wanted the American government to take over has been achievedTransforming American society:
These days the most dangerous place seems to be as a landowner whose property
is coveted by the American government. Henry Lamb says the American government
is coveting a lot of landNPR and I are now divorced: Jan
Ireland used to be married to National Public Radio but after the relationship
hit an extended rough patch she decided to call it off. She feels much
better nowCaring less for our children:
Paul Walfield reports on a fight that occurred in Lafayette, Indiana about
a pedophile who thought he had a right to cruise public parks and fantasize
about childrenAccolades and advice to Cleland:
The Washington Post reports that Max Cleland is bitter about the
loss of his Georgia Senate seat. Paul M. Weyrich has some advice for himSupport the Iranian freedom movement:
Carol Devine-Molin says Americans should stand beside the youth of Iran
who daily risk injury and death to protest against that country's theocratic
regimeOur friend Saddam: William S.
Lind believes the key to pacifying Iraq may not be to kill or prove that
Saddam Hussein has been killed, but keep him alive...at least in the fears
of IraqisIn the best interest of the children...:
The newest debate in family law is whether both parents should receive
custody of the children in the event of divorce. Wendy McElroy reports
on the debate over the "rebuttable presumption of joint custody"Strom Thurmond, R.I.P.: When
it came to the media they only had one way to describe retired South Carolina
senator Strom Thurmond: as an ex-segregationist and former Democrat. W.
James Antle III says Thurmond's legacy encompasses much more -- both good
and badA couple of extraordinary gentleman
of the 20th century: Strom Thurmond and Sir Denis Thatcher were polar
opposites in many ways but both were interesting characters and gentlemen,
writes Jackson MurphyHow to find a Democrat and
how to spot a liberal: When it comes to the media's reporting, argues
Bruce Walker, it's pretty easy to see who is a liberal or a Democrat by
how the media describes themThe most important book you
will read this year: Linda A. Prussen-Razzano found Forced Exit:
The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder to be
a deeply compelling workOn the 136th anniversary of Confederation:
Canadian identity and its predicaments: After 136 years you'd think
some questions would be resolved by as Mark Wegierski aptly illustrates,
Canada is a unique situationThe Declaration Philosophy -
Part II: The nature of rights: Linda A. Prussen-Razzano continues her
look at the philosophy behind the Declaration of Independence with the
second in a series of essaysDeclaring our independence: The
spirit of the Declaration of Independence has been obliterated, argues
Alan Caruba, but an activist federal government that regulates every aspect
of your lifePut the "independence" back
in Independence Day: The forgotten meaning of America: Independence
Day isn't just a holiday, writes Michael S. Berliner, it represents the
meaning of the United StatesSchwarzenegger contemplates
political run: Getting rid of Gray Davis would be reason enough but
Carol Devine-Molin says the Austrian Oak would be a perfect governor for
CaliforniaSenate Democrats choose fire and fraud
over flora, fauna and humans: Another year, more forest fires and Senate
Democrats playing their old games. John G. Lankford reports on the latest
goings onAnd the pendulum swings: The
environmental extremism of the Clinton-Gore years are behind us but Henry
Lamb says we still have a ways to go before restoring sanity when it comes
to environmental issuesMiddle East archeology:
If history were an archeological dig, writes Avi Davis, then you'd find
little beyond failed peace plans buried on top of each otherWaksal should have read Ayn Rand:
Sam Waksal could have portrayed himself as a real-life version of Hank
Rearden. David Holcberg says it looks like Waksal never read Atlas
ShruggedSecond thoughts on the Saga story:
The treatment of women by the Saudi government is abhorrent, writes Wendy
McElroy, but deploying American firepower to rectify that would be a big
mistakeChildren's Hope Act: A proven method
of school choice: Paul M. Weyrich offers some praise for Rep. Trent
Franks and some legislation he's pushing that could finally bring some
measure of school choiceFarmers for FreedomSite of the Month
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August 2003

EditorialThe virtue of recall elections:
Liberals -- not to mention many conservatives -- aren't big fans of recall
elections. Despite the fact that California's is turning into a carnival Bruce
Walker has nothing but praise for themRecalls could force politicians
to recall the Constitution: Recall efforts can be easily abused, and
chances are they will be in coming years, but W. James Antle III said if
used properly they can do much goodIs California a prize worth
winning?: It's assumed that a victory by a Republican in California's
recall election will help George W. Bush in 2004. Paul M. Weyrich isn't
convincedSchwarzenegger stumbles,
but can still recover: After a promising beginning Arnold Schwarzenegger's
campaign has begun to falter. Carol Devine-Molin says his supporters shouldn't
worryNotes on the Big Blackout:
The solution to avoiding future blackouts like the one that hit parts of
the U.S. and Canada last week is simple according to Alan Caruba. Build
more power plantsThe case against lawyers:
Walter Olson agrees to take the stand and submit to questioning by Steven
Martinovich over the state of the American legal systemSearching for faith:
Kristin Ohlson looked for faith with cloistered nuns in Stalking the
Divine: Contemplating Faith with the Poor Clares. Steven Martinovich
found her journey to be inspirational and touchingThe success that was the war in Iraq: "Peace" protesters
are once again attacking the Bush administration over the war in Iraq.
In his editorial Steve Martinovich says it's obvious they haven't noticed
what's been going on since the war's endThe fun of just watching:
There's a reason why August is dubbed "the silly season." Jackson
Murphy responds to some of the 'major' news stories that have captured
our attention recently(C-BINO) Confirmed Bachelor In Name
Only: Last week W. James Antle III wrote that he rather enjoys being
a young single man and sees little reason to get married. This week Bernard
Chapin respondsOne man, one woman: Pete
Vere responds to W. James Antle III's marriage piece from a traditional
Catholic perspective. Marriage is much more than a mere contract he arguesNorth Carolina: Pickup of a Senate
seat?: Robert S. Sargent Jr. reports that Sen. John Edwards' quest
for the Democratic nomination for president is causing Democrats problems
in North CarolinaWhen good Democrats go bad:
When people want to praise Sen. Joe Lieberman they call him a moderate.
David N. Bass says in today's Democratic Party that's a pejorativeJoe Biden's declaration of
candidacy: Sen. Joe Biden announced last week that he will not seek
the Democratic nomination for president but that didn't stop Andrew Alexander
from crafting a speech for himThe Third Sector in action:
Last week Henry Lamb described what the Third Sector was. This week he
shows where they get their money from and what they use it forHow not to use Light Armored
Vehicles: There's a right way to do things, a wrong way to do things
and the army way of doing things. William S. Lind says using Light Armored
Vehicles in Iraq is a classic illustration of the latterIsrael, hit Syria not Hezbollah:
Ariel Natan Pasko argues that Israel should stop striking terrorist group
Hezbollah and go to the source of the problem, namely SyriaOttawa's Kyoto plan: Another
billion-dollar boondoggle: Canada's federal government finally released
last week their plan to reduce so-called greenhouse gas emissions. Not
surprisingly Walter Robinson is far from impressedAmerica's European Supreme Court:
Paul Walfield is tired of the progressives sitting on America's Supreme
Court forgetting what their job description statesThe marriage strike:
Why are fewer people getting married these days? Wendy McElroy says men
are realizing that marriage is hardly an equal partnership these daysThe problem with marriage today – is
me: The biggest threat to the institution of marriage may be people
like W. James Antle III. He's part of that growing group of people who
are economically independent and who like being singleThe marriage quagmire:
The expansion of marriage to same-sex couples is dominating debate these
days and Wendy McElroy says she has a simple solution to the issueThe very worst president:
Last week Bruce Walker dreamed that Douglas MacArthur had served as president.
This week he wishes that the man who beat Charles Evans Hughes had never
sat in the big chairA journey through life: Steve
Martinovich finds The UFOs of October to be a marvelous collection
of poetry that fulfills the noblest function of literature: An exploration
of life'Running Man' Schwarzenegger poised
to 'Terminate' Gray Davis: Carol Devine-Molin says that Arnold Schwarzenegger
is the ideal candidate to replace Gray Davis whether or not Republicans
are wholeheartedly behind himSpinning their wheels: Remember
when Republicans were caught up in an orgy of hate over Bill Clinton? Jackson
Murphy says it looks like the Democrats are making the same mistake with
George W. BushRealism at school: Why does
Bernard Chapin work at an alternative school? Because the forces of political
correctness can't make inroads in a place where reality reigns supremeHappy cows, desperate PETA:
How desperate are things for PETA? Paul Walfield says they're angry about
a California commercial that shows animated cows in a state of happiness
and they're suing to stop the ads from runningThe natural gas crisis: Greens engineer
another disaster: Why have natural gas prices exploded in recent years?
Alan Caruba says you can thank our old friends, the environmentalist movement,
for effectively engineering a shortfallA new chapter in the church hierarchy:
The Catholic Church has had its problems over the last couple of years,
writes Paul Weyrich, but if you can praise the institution for one thing
it's the consistency of its position on abortionGo right young Catholic: Peter
Vere argues that Canadian Catholics, long important as a key to the continued
domination of the Liberal Party, if they are to take their faith seriously
need to find a new political homeLosing our liberty in the name
of fighting terrorism: Tom DeWeese says recent victories in the House
of Representatives that blunt the powers of the Patriot Act aren't written
in stoneAdding privacy to Patriot:
Legislation offered up in the Senate should correct some of the more egregious
aspects of the Patriot Act, writes Steve LilienthalThe Third Sector: What's
the "Third Sector"? Henry Lamb says it's special interest groups
who have injected themselves into the policy making processDemocrat analysis more like wishful
thinking: The Democrats admit that George W. Bush will be difficult
to beat in 2004, writes Bobby Eberle, but their analysis of the issues
is out to lunchDefining libertarianism down:
Libertarians in California had hoped that Arnold Schwarzenegger would try
and become governor but W. James Antle III says that The Terminator was
a faux libertarian at bestAt Casino America: the house must
win: Jackson Murphy doesn't know whether a "futures market" would
have accurately predicted a terrorist attack but he does believe it was
an innovative ideaTruman's nightmare: At the
end of the Second World War Harry Truman's biggest nightmare wasn't a powerful
Soviet Union, but the popularity of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Bruce Walker
says the world would have been very different with MacArthur sitting in
the big chairDouglas Coupland grows up:
Douglas Coupland's latest novel, Hey Nostradamus!, revealed to
Steven Martinovich that the man who defined Generation X is pondering some
weighty issues these daysVENONA: What my father didn't know:
A lot of people are upset by Ann Coulter's defence of Sen. Joe McCarthy.
Alan Caruba argues that they remind him of his fatherThe AMD-Chinese connection: Chip
maker AMD says it's not worried that the Chinese government might use a
new supercomputer for military purposes. David M. Brown isn't so sanguineA close look at the Senate Majority
Leader: Some prominent Republicans have been complaining about Senate
Majority Leader Bill Frist's leadership but Paul M. Weyrich says he's doing
a fantastic jobAn impending religious persecution
in Canada?: Earlier this year Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien
swore that the legalization of same sex marriages wouldn't forces changes
on religious institutions. Peter Vere isn't convincedThe problem with today's feminism:
Judging by Rachel Alexander's article, there isn't just one problem with
feminism todayPrisoner releases from Hell:
Ariel Natan Pasko says past history should teach Israelis one thing: releasing
prisoners or engaging in exchanges merely restores manpower to terrorist
groupsThe Declaration Philosophy: Part
IV – The amorality of rights: Linda A. Prussen-Razzano continues
her look at the philosophy behind the Declaration of Independence with
the fourth in a series of essaysThe Mirror of ERISED: Helen
and Peter Evans react to a UC Berkeley study that compares noted conservatives
to monsters like Adolph Hitler and Benito MussoliniThe search for wholeness in society,
personality, and romance: Mark Wegierski examines the concept of romance
and how we look at it in both rational and irrational termsDoctors, not lawyers, should treat
mental illness: New drugs aimed at treating schizophrenia are being
targeted by lawyers looking for a big payday but Amy Ridenour says that
only means the victims of that illness will suffer moreUniversity students deserve
human rights: Before you pack your children off to university next
month, writes Wendy McElroy, make sure you equip them with some necessary
equipmentFarmers for Freedom
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September 2003

EditorialDeicide and The Passion:
The controversy over Mel Gibson's movie The Passion misses, argues
Jeff Snyder, what the story really means and it has nothing to do with who
is to blame for Jesus Christ's deathWhat Bush really told the UN:
Many people listened to George W. Bush's speech at the United Nations on
September 23 but Alan Caruba thinks a lot of people missed what he was
trying to sayThe failure that is the
war against terrorism: Think the war against terrorism is going well?
In an interview with Steven Martinovich, Dr. Ivan Eland of the Center
on Peace & Liberty argues that the Bush administration is dropping
the ballSteel tariffs were bad economics
and bad politics: George W. Bush thought a lot of good would come from
the increase in steel tariffs he ordered in early 2002. W. James Antle
III says the move turned out to be anything but beneficial for the economy
or BushThe other treason: There are
two kinds of treason according to Bruce Walker: The active treason of people
like Alger Hiss and the quieter treason of people who worked to bring communism
to the United StatesPoor Marwan!: While Yasser Arafat
enjoys the support of many, writes Ariel Natan Pasko, Marwan Barghouti
sits in an Israeli prison. It just isn't fair!Beethoven's symphonies: In June Robert
S. Sargent, Jr. praised Beethoven's piano sonatas. This week he urges you not
to overlook the master's symphoniesNYSE chairman should have kept
his money -- and been proud of it: Edwin A. Locke believes that former
NYSE chairman and CEO Richard Grasso, vilified for accepting a $139 million
compensation package, should have kept all the moneyAborting the will of the people:
Americans overwhelmingly support a ban on partial-birth abortions but that
isn't stopping Sen. Tom Harkin and the rest of the Democrats from fighting
Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, says David N. BassCandidate Wesley Clark: Filmmaker
Michael Moore may be excited by Wesley Clark's decision to seek the Democratic
nomination but Carol Devine-Molin is less than impressed by the former
Army generalNo football for me this year: Long
a fan of football, that most conservative of sports, Trevor Bothwell says
he's boycotting the NFL this year because of its descent into racial political
correctnessMahogany, Peru & poverty: NRDC's
eco-lies continue: What's the Natural Resources Defense Council up
to these days? According to Alan Caruba it seems to want to make poor Peruvians
even poorerEnvironmental litigation threatens
endangered species: Out of control litigation over the environment
is actually threatening to do what the environmentalist movement doesn't
want to see: threaten endangered species. Dana Joel Gattuso explains howRenegade court strikes again:
The Ninth Circuit Court has made plenty of news over the past year or so
with controversial decisions, writes Doug Patton, and last week was no
exceptionConfronting prison rape:
Rape in prison isn't just confined to the television show Oz.
Wendy McElroy says we should all be concerned about what happens in prisonSpectrum shifts and public
opinion polls: The left loves to portray the right as extremists.
The reality, says Bruce Walker, is that the American public sides with
those
so-called "extremists" on many issuesWar on terror not just another issue:
Just two years into the world war against terrorism the issue itself has
become just another item for debate, writes W. James Antle IIISeptember 11 and the nine dwarves:
Last week Charles Bloomer observed a link between a debate involving the
nine Democratic hopefuls for president and the anniversary of the September
11 terrorist attacks. The two events led him to ask some questionsBush's PR difficulties with Iraq:
Why is U.S. President George W. Bush having public relations problems over
the issue of Iraq? Carol Devine-Molin pins the blame on both the left and
the rightIt's the style, stupid: Virginia
Postrel explores why style and aesthetics is important to us in her new
book The Substance of Style and Jackson Murphy believes she did
a convincing jobThe ever evolving brain: Steve
Martinovich finds Richard Restak's The New Brain: How the Modern Age
is Rewiring Your Mind an interesting overview of how our brains are
being changed and charted in this modern eraLocke v. Davey: While people
are focused on the struggles of Alabama Supreme Court Judge Roy Moore and
his Ten Commandments monument, Mark Brnovich says there's another more
important case in the United StatesThe price of freedom. Pay it!:
A lot of people are unhappy with George W. Bush's recent request for $87
billion to continue the war against terrorism but Alan Caruba says it's
a necessary priceThe Declaration Philosophy, Part V:
This right before all others: Linda A. Prussen-Razzano continues her
look at the philosophy behind the Declaration of Independence with the
fifth in a series of essays, this time focusing on the right to lifeThe rerun continues: Once again
Israel is talking tough about Yasser Arafat's future but Ariel Natan Pasko
isn't fooled...he knows Arafat isn't going anywhereThe fall of Abbas: Why such surprise?:
Avi Davis is surprised that there was so much shock over the resignation
of Mahmoud Abbas as Palestinian prime minister. He believes that result
was practically pre-ordainedDay of the blogger: Despite the
increasing popularity and influence of blogs, the mainstream media treats
them as if they were pariahs. Blogger John Hawkins thinks that will soon
changePublic marathons for charity: A
dissenting view: It's not a popular position to hold but Scott Shore
is no fan of those public marathons for charity that tie up city streets
and he doesn't care if you call him a curmudgeonPoliticians, scripture and tax
collectors: Alabama Governor Bob Riley proved what Paul Weyrich has
long argued: politicians who ask for tax hikes don't become more popularShould Americans surrender their
freedom for government drugs?: A Medicare prescription drug bill that
Congress is attempting to put together takes away choice from Americans,
says Richard E. RalstonFree trade equals prosperity:
Edwin A. Locke argues that global capitalism is the best means of creating
worldwide freedom and wealth. If only last week's protestors at the WTO
meetings in Cancun would listenConstitutional liberties on standby:
What's the latest threat to the personal liberty of Americans? Steve Lilienthal
says it's called CAPPS II and it's a database that identifies passengers
on airlines by a color-coded risk assessmentThe personal is personal:
The 1960s feminist motto "The personal is political" has penetrated
all aspects of society, writes Wendy McElroy, and eroded our privacy
in the processGovernment has to be paid for:
TNSTAAFL. Milton Friedman, not to mention Robert Heinlein, know what people
like Howard Dean appear never to learn. W. James Antle III says There's
No Such Thing As A Free LunchEverybody but me: Last week Yasser
Arafat blamed Israel and the United States for the death of the road map
to peace. In his editorial Steve Martinovich says Arafat should look in
the mirrorThe myth of interdependence:
It's long been held that the interdependence of nations is a positive development.
Bruce Walker argues that it isn't soThe writing's on the wall:
Robert S. Sargent Jr. says that Roe v. Wade took a serious blow
from a recent court decision by the Mississippi Supreme Court Posner explains 'Why America Slept':
Carol Moline-Devine writes that Gerald Posner's Why America Slept:
The Failure to Prevent 9/11 contains some very interesting insights
into the world of terrorism and the fight being waged against itUnholy narcissism fuels left
and right extremists: Neither Paul Hill, the man executed for killing
an abortion doctor, nor Raed Abdel-Hamed Masq, the man who killed dozens
in a terrorist attack in Israel, are men who represent religion despite
what their fans say, writes Jan IrelandWalking the intellectual high wire
with Roger Scruton: Murray Soupcoff has nothing but praise for English
author Roger Scruton, a man who brings a powerful intellect to the analysis
of cultureNot just for so-cons: Why fiscal conservatives
should vote FCP: There are plenty of conservatives in Ontario who don't
want to vote Progressive Conservative in October. Peter Vere says they
should consider casting a ballot for the Family Coalition PartyThe illusion of national security:
Big government fans promised that the war on terrorism would make Americans
more safe. Tom DeWeese says that little has changed since September 11,
2001The timid war on terrorism: A
majority of Americans think the war on terrorism is going according to
plan but Elan Journo and Yaron Brook believe that the U.S. is losing the
war because it is ceding moral groundUSA PATRIOT riding into the sunset:
Paul Weyrich argues that unless John Ashcroft is willing to admit that
there are problems with the USA PATRIOT Act he shouldn't be surprised by
the battle conservative groups are putting upThe advent of Christian feminism:
What's got feminists scared? Wendy McElroy says Christian feminists are
going to shake the politically correct world up with their arrival on the
sceneRacial preferences and recycled
Jim Crow arguments: The government demanding knowledge of our racial
make-up should be an odious reminder of America's past, argues W. James
Antle III, which is why Ward Connerly's Racial Privacy Initiative must
be victoriousBreaking the chains: For James
Landrith the Racial Privacy Initiative is a deeply personal issue and the
proposition's victory won't just be political but moral as wellGrover's charge: An interview
with Grover Norquist: Tax reformer Grover Norquist sits down with Bernard
Chapin and discusses taxes and the Leviathan that feeds off themSeptember, do you know where
your quagmire is?: It's a new month so that means it's time to play
Chicken Little over Iraq again. Jackson Murphy responds to the latest charges
that Iraq is turning into a...wait for it!...quagmireHow to talk for a
living: Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites: My Adventures in
Cable News by Tucker Carlson tells the behind the scenes stories in
cable news and Steve Martinovich enjoyed it completelyBlaming America from the right:
Anti-Americanism isn't just a feature of the left, says Steven Martinovich. Rogue
Nation: American Unilaterialism and the Failure of Good Intentions by
Clyde Prestowitz is proof of thatTom Clancy's new generation
of heroes: Tom Clancy and a new Jack Ryan are back with The Teeth
of the Tiger. Steve Martinovich reviews the latest novel in the long
running techno-thriller franchiseConservation of conservatism:
Brian Tiemann simply doesn't understand why his liberal friends think conservatives
are little mora than pure evilYes Canada, I prefer American
healthcare: The one article of faith that Canadians hold dear is that
Canadian healthcare is superior to America's system. Canadian Peter Vere,
who made the move down south, says Canadians are wrongDick Morris opines on the Clintons:
Dick Morris' career almost ended in ignominy but Carol Moline-Devine says
that ex-Clinton consultant has become a responsible political pundit these
days"Enlibra": EPA's new
wolf in sheep's clothing: Think Christie Whitman was bad as EPA Director?
Alan Caruba says Mike Leavitt is going to be a lot worseThe cost of turning green:
It's not be easy being green and it's not cheap either. Henry Lamb wishes
people pushing environmentalism calculated all the costs of their desiresThe second worst president:
Anyone can tell you who they think the worst president in American history
was but how many people can name their number two? Bruce Walker canNEA to target Republicans in 2004:
The National Education Association is once again proving that it's mission
in life has little to do with education. Samuel L. Blumenfeld reports the
NEA will be heavily involved in the 2004 electionsBetter education through vouchers:
Paul Weyrich thinks Trent Franks' Children's Hope Act will do much good
in American public schools and most importantly will help childrenTotal surveillance equals total
tyranny: Who are the winners when government expands surveillance of
its citizens? Tom DeWeese says it isn't the citizensRadical Islamic group claims
upcoming event is not a celebration of terrorism: Jeremy Reynalds says
what Al-Muhajiroun says and what it is doing are two very different thingsGoing to extremes: The
issue of father's rights may heat up into violence soon, argues Wendy McElroy,
unless people begin taking the issue seriouslyFarmers for Freedom
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October 2003

EditorialWinning California - Round Two:
The battle in California is far from over, argues Bruce Walker. Remember the
name Janice Rogers Brown because you might be hearing it quite a bit in coming
years...if she's not filibustered first that isLiving in post-constitutional America:
Constitutional conservatives love to argue that Americans need to get back
to how the founding fathers envisioned the United States would work. W.
James Antle III agrees but argues con-cons need to remember a few thingsMemos and the Kobayashi Maru:
The flap over the leak of a memo written by Donald Rumsfeld concerning
the war against terrorism reminds Jackson Murphy of the Star Fleet test
that only James T. Kirk managed to successfully completeThe Tao of The Gipper:
Peter Robinson didn't just write speeches for Ronald Reagan, he learned
a lot about life as well. Steven Martinovich reviews How Ronald Reagan
Changed My LifeThe war against liberty:
James Bovard lays out a devastating critique of the Bush administration
in Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to
Rid the World of Evil and Steven Martinovich thinks he makes a number
of important pointsChristians and the constitutional
landscape: Kathy Shaidle reviews Judicial Activism: A Threat to
Democracy and Religion, a survey of the state of constitutional law
in Canada and its chilling effects on religionHow porous should our borders be?:
If you're looking for a rational immigration policy, writes Steve Farrell,
why not consult Thomas Jefferson?Anti-social studies:
Social studies used to be about teaching young people about the world around
them. These days, says Bernard Chapin, it exists to indoctrinate themOnly half-married: Forget
the controversy over same-sex marriage, write Helen and Peter Evans, not
many people seem to understand what traditional marriage is anymoreThe Pope is dying: It's time to come
clean: Pope John Paul II has long made conciliatory and welcomed gestures
towards the Jewish community but Ariel Natan Pasko wants him to make one
huge one: the return of the Jewish people's rightful inheritanceSome Canadians hoping for "regime-change" in
Ottawa: Mark Wegierski reports that some Canadians are hoping for a
conservative revolution in Canada. History, however, indicates that none
shall be forthcomingThe radical green god-squad:
It's hard enough to make a living at ranching, argues Henry Lamb, without
the sanctimonious environmentalist movement -- with the help of people
in government -- making it even more difficultWhy the national debt matters to you:
Remember the furious debates over the national debt over the past two decades?
Jill S. Farrell says America's debt is still an important topic even if
the media ignores it these daysGuarding "Buy America" defense
manufacturing: Regardless of what you think of the "Buy American" creed,
writes Paul Weyrich, making sure America's defense industry is more self-reliant
isn't a bad ideaThe real threat is not cigarettes
but the unfettered power of government: As anti-smoking activists enjoy
one victory after another, Robert W. Tracinski warns them that there is
a far greater danger to people then the threat of secondhand smokeKilling the Good Samaritan:
There once was a time when a man would leap into the hell itself to help
out a woman in need. What happened? Wendy McElroy says you can thank the
politically correct movement for tarring all men as potential demonsDemocrats as the loyal
opposition: The Democrats don't have to be in power to have a positive
influence on politics, argues Bruce Walker. They can also serve as an honourable
opposition A Navy Seabee in Iraq: Robert
S. Sargent, Jr. talks to a Navy Seabee recently returned from Iraq for
the real story as to what's going on in that nation. The news is nowhere
near as bad as you've been hearingThe future of Iraq: The
media loves to report suicide bombers who are striking at liberty in Iraq
so Samuel L. Blumenfeld isn't surprised that people are pessimistic about
that country's futureWhat gun control doesn't do:
Gun control advocates have long argued that regulation is needed to prevent
loss of life. Steven Martinovich says that 24 000 gun laws don't seem to
have much of an impactRush haters don't like the dittoheads
either: Rush Limbaugh's enemies aren't merely content with using the
outspoken radio host's problems against him, writes W. James Antle III,
they want to use those problems against his listeners as wellThe murder of Terri Schiavo:
Doug Patton argues that the impending death of Terri Schiavo is nothing
less than a watershed moment in American historyRaining on the euphoria of the
merger: Conservatives in Canada are gleeful over the impending merger
of the country's conservative parties but Jackson Murphy can barely stifle
a yawnThe different styles of conservatism
in Canada: Canada itself may tend towards the center-left but that
doesn't mean it doesn't have a legitimate conservative movement. Mark Wegierski
investigates some of the varieties: Foggy Bottom thwarts America's security:
Americans are right to wonder occasionally whose interests the U.S. State
Department is representing, writes Carol Devine-MolinThe case for off-shore drilling:
Alan Caruba has no kind things to say about people who are attempting to
block oil exploration off the coast of New JerseyEgyptian tunnels to heaven:
Ariel Natan Pasko believes Israel should tackle the problems of smuggling
tunnels where they originate from: EgyptPeace, pain, Sukkot: Israel will
embark on another prisoner exchange -- this time hundreds of people will
be turned over for one Israeli citizen and three bodies -- and P. David
Hornik isn't a fanThe "Precautionary Principle":
Environmentalists use the so-called "Precautionary Principle" to
validate their policies so Henry Lamb wonders why that same principle isn't
valid when George W. Bush used it to invade Iraq?Lying about sports: Bernard
Chapin argues that sports must always remain the preserve of the fanatic
-- the fan who would risk life and limb to watch their team play -- men
like Johnny Q-baccaWhy liberals kill more people
than guns: Pete Vere and his mother love to argue about gun control
and abortion. Vere reminds his mother that abortion takes a far greater
toll of life then do firearmsIll-considered communist revival:
Communism is experiencing a revival in Russia, says Paul Weyrich. He believes
the party's new recruits should visit North Korea and Cuba to experience
what they are arguing forChild welfare system must grow up:
Wendy McElroy says America's child welfare programs in many states are
nothing short of disasters and it's the children who are paying the ultimate
priceDecentralizing the federal
government: Forget about cosmetic changes that appear to bring government
back to the people. Bruce Walker literally wants government to decentralize
radically so that government is amongst the peopleConservative-Libertarian
split: Liberals get it, conservatives don't: W. James Antle III believes
the political left has realized what the political right refuses to: the
right's traditional constituencies have been taken for granted in recent
years and may be up for grabsA history of lost Christianities:
The early history of Christianity is explored in Lost Christianities:
The Battles for Scriptures and the Faiths We Never Knew and Steve
Martinovich thinks Bart D. Ehrman has a winner on his handsCuring Islam's sickness: Abdelwahab
Meddeb argues in The Malady of Islam that Islam is sick from the
disease of fundamentalism and offers his solutions to the problem. Steve
Martinovich reviews his effortsBush and budgets: The good,
the bad, the ugly: We can all agree that George W. Bush's profligate
spending is hardly inspiring, but Jackson Murphy asks those considering
voting Democrat whether they'd be better off with someone else in the big
chairThe right is on the way back:
Michael Moriarty believes that conservatives around the world should take
heart that Arnold Schwarzenegger won the California recall election last
weekThe real world series:
We're not far away from baseball's World Series but Henry Lamb says we
should be more concerned about another world series that will take place
in November 2004There is no electrical grid: When
the blackout hit earlier this summer the experts fell all over themselves
describing a failure in the distribution grid. Alan Caruba argues that
there is in fact no real gridTime Magazine's rush to declare defeat:
In a recent cover story Time Magazine all but declared the Iraqi
post-war situation a catastrophe. Samuel L. Blumenfeld says they have it
all wrongConfronting the Syrian threat:
Carol Devine-Molin says that Israel recognizes it even if the rest of the
world doesn't: Syria is a sponsor of terrorism and a danger to global securityTake the money and run: Clark and
CAPPS II: Americans don't have to wonder where Wesley Clark stands
on the issue of their liberty. Steve Lilienthal says the money speaks for
itselfWhere have you gone, Isaac Newton?:
Science used to be based on reason but these days, writes David Harriman,
it's becoming indistinguishable from the very things it used to attackCampaign finance limits violate free
speech: The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act -- under review by the U.S.
Supreme Court -- is an ominous limitation on free speech, says Andrew LewisHelp for hiring legal immigrants:
This week the U.S. House of Representatives is considering the expansion
of a pilot project designed to check whether someone is a legal alien when
they are applying for a job. Paul M. Weyrich says the system isn't a cure-all
but it will helpCollective Western guilt burdens
today's children: Many in the West today are labouring under the burden
of guilt over what has happened in the past. Wendy McElroy believes that's
what may be motivating charges of rape in KenyaOpen borders Freedom Ride to
nowhere: Equating illegal immigration with the 1960s civil rights movement
is an error in logic, writes W. James Antle III in response to the recent "Freedom
Ride" for immigrant workersSupporting Arnold, the Republican
nominee: Suck it up, conservative Republicans in California. When you
go to the polls on October 7 your choice is the Democrats or Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Bruce Walker says choose the Austrian OakSee no evil: News that David
Kay has found no weapons of mass destruction has spawned countless of "informed" editorials
blasting the Bush administration. Jackson Murphy wonders why they don't
tell the whole storyWhy Rush Limbaugh's big mouth
mattered: Whether Limbaugh was right about Donovan McNabb's high profile
being as a result of his race, argues Kimberley Lindsay Wilson, he was
wrong about some other thingsLimbaugh's secret life: Rush Limbaugh
is a man who refuses to wear jeans because he doesn't want to look like
a hippy. Who knew before last week that he was also a drug addict? Carol
Devine-Molin feels for the manOn the pleasure of reading old
magazines: One of Samuel L. Blumenfeld's joys is reading old magazines.
They tell you a lot about the world and how it's changed over the past
centuryKiss your property rights goodbye!:
Government isn't the only danger to property rights, writes Tom DeWeese.
He counsels you to avoid neighbourhoods with homeowner's associations.
They can be just as bad as out of control governmentThe green enemies of progress:
The environmentalist movement can wrap their ideology up in all the scientific
language they can muster but for Alan Caruba their message is clear: progress
is morally wrongChoosing America's future: When
you cast your ballot next year, writes Henry Lamb, include in your analysis
of each candidate who you think will make sure that America's supply of
oil isn't choked offVive L'Alberta Libre! An interview
with Bruce Hutton of the Separation Party of Alberta: Quebec isn't
the only Canadian province that flirts with separating from the rest of
the country. Alberta has long had its own secessionist movement. Peter
Vere talks with one of its leadersTwo sides Of Schumer: It appears
for Sen. Charles Schumer that the seriousness of leaks is determined by
the political affiliation of the man serving as president. Paul M. Weyrich
explains why he believes thatCharles Pickering: A man of
great honor and courage: Charles Pickering finally made it out of the
Senate's Judiciary Committee last week. John A. Nowacki says it's about
time the character assassination he's suffered come to an endHealth and taxes: Even worse
than death and taxes: If you let the government control how you receive
health care, says Richard E. Ralston, you get the worst of all worldsThe Caucasian Club: Robert S.
Sargent, Jr. doesn't particularly care for clubs that define themselves
by race but he wishes high school student Lisa McClelland and her push
for a "Caucasian Club" wellRepublicans will pay for Bush's
bad transit policies: By pushing bus-based transit systems, argues
Daniel G. Jennings, George W. Bush risks alienating a large pool of votersThe wall in my heart: Israel's
rapidly growing security wall promises to keep the country safer -- or
at least that's what the government hopes -- but Ariel Natan Pasko isn't
a fanBaby Kim's secret weapon:
Why does Kim Jong Il continue to get away with tweaking the world's nose?
John Dawson says it's because everyone believes there is no objective standard
for moral judgmentFamilies pay price for government
spending: When experts try and figure out why families are under such
strain today, argues Wendy McElroy, they often forget to include the cost
of governmentJohn Kerry, semi-supply-sider?:
Is John Kerry turning into a supply-sider? Probably not but as W. James
Antle III points out, Kerry is at least against repealing a tax cut for
middle class families which differentiates him from the other DemocratsCalling a constitutional convention:
Bruce Walker argues that the only way to stop all the abuse of the American
Constitution is to hold a constitutional convention and give the country
back to its peopleThe day America changed: Murdering
McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America isn't perfect
but Steve Martinovich found it a great guide to an event changed the course
of a nation's historyWhen the revolution goes wrong:
Keith D. Cummings' Opening Bell starts where Ayn Rand's Atlas
Shrugged ends off: a revolution of the mind. Steven Martinovich reviews
this first time novelist's effortThe thought police strike back
-- SMU affirmative action bake sale shut down: Want to protest your
favourite liberal cause on campus? No problem. Want to protest affirmative
action? Brendan Steinhauser says schools are considerably less supportiveTime to get serious: The Democrats'
frenzy of Bush hatred should be a message to the Republicans and George
W. Bush, writes Jackson Murphy, that things are looking good for them...as
long as they keep their eye on the ballThe United Nation's fork in the road:
Kofi Annan was right last week when he stated that the United Nations has
come to a fork in the road. Alan Caruba says that he just doesn't understand
where the paths lead toRestructuring the U.N.: There's
nothing wrong with the United Nations that a good deal of massive restructuring
wouldn't solve, writes Henry LambHoly places: Who is the latest
target for the European Parliament? A monastery located on Mt. Athos in
Greece. Their crime? According to Paul Weyrich they've earned the ire of
some for being an all-male environmentMafiosos, terrorists, and all
that jazz: Terrorism isn't just a religious obligation for some people,
it's also a business for other people. Carol Devine-Molin explainsGreens bash Democratic governor
for speeding: David N. Bass says recent news that New Mexico Governor
Bill Richardson loves drivers with a lead foot spotlights the dislike the
Greens and Democrats have for each otherIsraeli left: Love your enemy,
hate your brother: The Israeli left isn't all that different from the
American left, judging by what Ariel Natan Pasko has to say about the subject.
In Israeli, the left is more interested in the people trying to destroy
their country than those who are the targetsKids just don't understand: The
real cause of online music piracy: Why do teens pirate music on the
Internet? Barry and Michele Fagin say they haven't been taught what intellectual
property rights areRumors of coal's demise have been
greatly exaggerated: The Ontario election campaign has seen a lot of
talk about the death of coal as an energy source. Jason Hayes believes
coal isn't going away any time soonPickering deserves another unanimous
confirmation: Once again Charles Pickering will be declared a racist
by some members of the Senate and once again it won't be true. John Nowacki
says Pickering deserves a position on the Fifth CircuitDo poor fathers deserve debtors'
prison?: The common answer is that "deadbeat fathers" deserve
to rot in jail but Wendy McElroy says that reality is far more difficult
than easy answersConvicted murderess can get custody
but decent fathers can't: What's one way to get custody? Murder the
father of your children, get convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Glenn Sacks says that didn't stop Clara Harris from receiving joint custody
of her two childrenFarmers for Freedom
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EditorialMassachusetts marriage ruling is judicial
activism in action: Regardless of how you feel about gay marriage, writes
W. James Antle III, the recent court ruling in Massachusetts was an example
of personal opinion trumping the rule of law. That's judicial activism no
matter what the outcome isThe journey from slave owner
to emancipator: There are a lot of people who will consider Henry Wiencek's An
Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves and the Creation of America a
smear on Washington's reputation but Steve Martinovich believes it was
an honest treatment that humanizes America's first presidentBarbra Streisand: The new Janet
Reno: Michael Moriarty has a long history with former Attorney General
Janet Reno but he decides to turn his guns in a new direction: Barbra Streisand
for placing herself in the midst of The Reagans controversyDon't rush Iraq to democracy:
Steve Martinovich argues that history has proven that you don't introduce
democracy into a nation like Iraq too soon or you might create as many
new problems as you've solvedAnother spin on school choice:
Bruce Walker argues that all levels of government should get involved in
providing education to produce competition, something he believes would
radically improve public education in AmericaEducators vs. reading: Once
again national tests have shown no improvement in reading scores and Onkar
Ghate says it's because educators refuse to give up the whole language
method of readingLiberal senators block Child Medication
Safety Act of 2003: The CMS Act would prevent schools from forcing
parents to drug ADD diagnosed children but several senators on the left
are determined to block its passage, writes Samuel L. BlumenfeldPresident Bush versus the Leftists:
Everyone was expecting a catastrophic trip for George W. Bush while he
was in Britain. Carol Devine-Molin says the Texan did very nicely in Old
BlightyThe Democrats' Southern problem:
Bobby Jindal's loss in Louisiana has been suggested by some that the Republican
tide in the southern United States is beginning to recede. W. James Antle
III believes you'd have to be delusional to agree with that notionMore
freebies for older Americans: Despite how popular free drug
benefits for the elderly may be, and the elderly undoubtedly love the idea,
Keith D. Cummings says that it's state sponsored robberyDo we want another Jessica Lynch?:
Kimberley Jane Wilson says the Jessica Lynch story should prompt Americans
to finally debate with themselves whether they really want women to serve
in combat situationsJessica Lynch, Col. West, and common
sense: In dangerous times, argues Trevor Bothwell, the U.S. Army needs
men like Lt. Col. Allen West. Instead, they're attempting to run him out
of the militaryThe political pornography
of saving the children: Untold numbers of African children die every
year because poverty robs them of a chance to live. So what concerns the
United Nations? Murray Soupcoff says the world body is more interested
in discussing poverty in the United StatesDemolishing political correctness:
One teradactyl at a time: When it comes to battling the politically
correct Bernard Chapin says the time is right to now carry the war to them.
After all, you lose nothing by having a sanctimonious person hate you Toward a conservative conception
of privacy: Steve Lilienthal urges everyone to remember that the battle
for your privacy shouldn't be confined to simply targeting the federal
government. The war has many fronts that need soldiersAlien Tort Claims Act used against
poor Africans: Why should American lawyers limit themselves to screwing
over fellow Americans? John Meredith says class-action lawsuits filed against
U.S. corporations who did business in apartheid-era South Africa will harm
poor South Africans the mostWhere are the fiscal conservatives?:
There's a spending spree the likes that Jill S. Farrell has never seen
going on at Capitol Hill and she's like to know what happened to all the
self-styled fiscal conservativesFathers protest unjust custody
laws: A lot of fathers are protesting the fact that as soon as they
are divorced the powers of the state are turned against them when it comes
to the issue of their children, writes Wendy McElroyLaMusga move-away case:
Fathers' rights showdown in CA Supreme Court: One of the issues worrying
men who've lost custody of their children, says Glenn Sacks, is the issue
of allowing custodial mothers to move hundreds or thousands of miles away
and separating children from their fathersCreating a new holiday:
If we can't get his face on Mt. Rushmore, why not dedicate a whole day
to him? Bruce Walker proposes a campaign to create a holiday named after
Ronald Reagan...and none of that "President's Day" stuff eitherFailing to make the
case against LBJ: Barr McClellan tries to make the case in Blood,
Money and Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K. that Lyndon Johnson was
one of the men responsible for the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Steve
Martinovich wasn't convincedUnfunny untruths:
Michael Moore's Dude, Where's My Country? commits the worst sins
that funny books about politics are supposed to avoid. It wasn't funny
and it you can't trust much of anything that's in it. Steve Martinovich
explains whyThe galaxy strikes back:
Heinlein Award winner Robert Zubrin's science fiction novel The Holy
Land takes on the War on Terrorism. Jack J. Woehr had some problems
with it but did find it to be thought-provokingFar sides of the world: Jackson
Murphy saw Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World this
weekend and it gets him thinking about the future of IraqBush's vision for the Middle
East: George W. Bush does indeed have a great vision for the Middle
East, writes Robert S. Sargent Jr. The problem? He doesn't provide a road
map to get thereSecret memo linking Saddam and al-Qaida:
The U.S. Department of Defense may not be pleased about its leak but Carol
Devine-Molin says a memo detailing the links between Saddam Hussein and
al-Qaida is eye-openingThe chickenhawk slur: The
extreme left once again dragged out the "chickenhawk" slur to
stifle debate, reports John Hawkins. He wonders if they know who would
belongs in that category if the insult were to be taken seriouslyFrom the front lines of the culture
war...A diary of Terri's vigil: By coincidence of geography Peter Vere
just happened to be in the middle of the Terri Schiavo protest last month.
In a series of diary excerpts we learn what it was like to be in the middle
of the stormThe twists and turns of the Jessica
Lynch story: David M. Huntwork argues that the Jessica Lynch story
has raised many issues that need to be addressed, ones being ignored in
favor of using her story to score pointsCheck power or checkmate?: Checks
and balances were built into the U.S. Constitution for a reason, says Steve
Farrell. Power, even in a democracy, corrupts...unless men have become
angelsIgnorance about energy: Alan Caruba
believes that a lot of people need a good dose of common sense when it
comes to energy and the issues linked to itIgnoring Thomas Edison: Thomas
A. Edison worked a lifetime to improve the lives of Americans with his
inventions but today, writes Tom DeWeese, people are determined to destroy
his legacyWorld socialists call for world
government: Lovers of the United Nations hate to hear their beloved
referred to as "socialist" and yet, says Henry Lamb, Socialist
International proves that the description is aptThe big guys try to write their
own bonanza: Regardless of what you think of the faith-based initiative,
writes Steve Lilienthal, the Senate version contains an odious provision
if your a fan of private property rightsColleges charge big for worthless
curricula: Given the incredible cost of college and university, says Wendy
McElroy, it's a travesty that youth today are graduating without
even a passing knowledge of the fundamentalsGOP also needs to remember the
Reagan legacy: W. James Antle III is pleased that the GOP defended
the Reagan record from being smeared by a now cancelled CBS mini-series.
He just wishes the GOP would do a little more in living up to the man's
legacyThe First Amendment, corporate
power, leftist whining and The Reagans: Bruce Walker is tired of the
left portraying CBS' decision not to air The Reagans as a right wing hit
on free speech. When it comes to the truth, organizations like CBS have
a lot of sins to pay forTime to kiss and make up: A growing
number of Canadians want stronger ties with the United States. Steve Martinovich
hopes Canadian government begins to move in that directionState of the media address:
Bernard Goldberg is back with Arrogance: Rescuing America from the
Media Elite, his latest indictment of a biased media and Steven Martinovich
reviews his effortsThe forgotten heroes of World
War II: It's not perfect but Steve Martinovich finds that A Question
of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: The Forgotten Heroes of World War II does
manage to inform the reader how important the Poles were to winning the
Second World War IIMusic for a free nation:
God and country come together in One Nation Under God, a collection
of instrumental recordings featuring some of America's best military bands.
Steve Martinovich judges it a nice addition to your collectionJudges matter: Control of
the judiciary is too important for gimmicks: How are the Republicans
fighting the continued filibuster of George W. Bush's judicial nominees?
By planning a sleep over on the Senate floor. W. James Antle III wants
somebody to get serious about going to bat for conservative judgesFighting the Michael Moore
Matrix: Neo of The Matrix was offered the choice to take the blue pill
or the red pill. Jackson Murphy says for many people they woke up and believed
the world according to people like Michael MoorePutting the "quagmire" in
perspective: It is indeed tragic when coalition forces in Iraq suffer
fatalities but Charles Bloomer urges you to keep the numbers of deaths
in perspectiveIraq heats up: There has been
some bad news coming out of Iraq lately but Carol Devine-Molin argues that
it would be unthinkable for the U.S. to leave nowBirds of a feather, flock together:
When it comes to ideas about Iraq's immediate future, writes Henry Lamb,
it's not surprising that the left moves in lockstepIraq is not Vietnam: The United
States is engaged in a battle for hearts and minds in Iraq, argues Jackson
Murphy, but the situation isn't the same as Vietnam despite what the media
likes to tell the American peopleWorth fighting for? Faint light
from the hear of Iraq darkness…: Murray Soupcoff wishes that
George W. Bush would address some serious concerns about Iraq rather than
lapse into cowboy talkThe Europeanization of American education:
Thomas Jefferson was strenuously opposed to sending American children to
be educated in Europe. Steve Farrell says Americans did the next worse
thing: they brought Europe to America's schoolsWhere are the "human shields" for
Israelis?: Impressionable young Westerners flocked to provide protection
as human shields for Palestinians and even did so for Saddam Hussein's
brutal fascist regime. Ariel Natan Pasko wonders why Israelis don't merit
the same passionLove letters from leftists:
Using the mountain of hate mail he's received from the left, Bruce Walker
constructs a handy guide for future letter writers if they want to get
their point across The singular Mr. Gioia: A poet helms
the NEA: Dana Gioia is the newly named chairman of the National Endowment
for the Arts and a poet. Robert Bové examines some of the ideas
the former vice president for marketing at General Foods will be bringing
to bear in his new jobFeminism as an educational virus:
Feminism may be under attack in mainstream society but as an educator Brian
Chapin knows that it continues to penetrate the classroom with an increasingly
hostile ideologyThe way they lived then: Marriage
is one of the world's oldest institutions but P. David Hornik says it was
a different kind of institution for people of his grandparents' eraGovernment enforced attitudes
and beliefs: Land of the free? Alan Caruba argues that there are a
lot of things you simply aren't allowed to say these days"New Civics" means "Global
Governance": Being a good civic citizen once meant being a good
America. Today, argues Tom DeWeese, it means believing in ideas like global
governmentTiny type and lots of labels -
At what cost and what effectiveness?: Attorney Marion Edwyn Harrison
has had enough of small print and labels. Unfortunately, Harrison writes,
the American government isn't finished making sure everything is labeled
for our protectionBetter now than later: Tightening
the USA-PATRIOT Act: It's still not too late to reign in the USA PATRIOT
Act, argues Steve Lilienthal. The SAFE Act would rectify many of the serious
problems introduced by the legislation designed to aid law enforcement
in fighting terrorismPro-lifers link euthanasia to
abortion: Wendy McElroy believes the pro-life is making a mistake by
attempting the case of Terri Schiavo to the
wider debate over abortionDissolution of the governors association
is no answer: America's governors may be calling for more money, writes
Jill S. Farrell, but that doesn't mean that the federal government has
to give in or take action against themFarmers for Freedom
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EditorialDilemmacrats: The Democrats
are lining themselves up for a loss next year, says Bruce Walker, and the cause
will be their out of control hatred -- best exemplified by Howard Dean -- for
George W. BushAbsolute power corrupts: What Saddam
teaches us about unlimited power: Saddam Hussein proved once again, writes
W. James Antle III, that Lord Acton was right when he argued against absolute
powerA missed opportunity: Earlier
this month Shirin Ebadi of Iran received the Nobel Peace Prize. In his
editorial Steve Martinovich blasts her for criticizing the West instead
of spotlighting the fight for democracy in her homelandThe best books of 2003: Book
editor Steve Martinovich announces his picks for the best books of 2003The art of leadership:
For centuries politicians have looked to Niccolo Machiavelli for inspiration
but Steve Martinovich thinks that Carnes Lord's The Modern Prince:
What Leaders Need To Know may replace The PrinceSeeking simplicity through God:
There is no such thing as an easy spiritual journey and Steve Martinovich
says it's the same with Paula Huston's The Holy Way: Practices for
a Simple LifeRinging in 2004 with orange:
Another victory for that unilateralist cowboy in Washington, D.C.! Jackson
Murphy argues that while Libya's renunciation of WMDs may not make the
world appreciably safer it is still a victory for global securityIraq's ripple effect: Carol
Devine-Molin says that recent successes in the war against terrorism are
due only to one thing: the policies of the Bush administration"V-Day" in Amherst:
In the arms race with Berkeley, Ca. to find out who is the more irresponsibly
liberal, Amherst, Mass. has kicked it up a notch, says Isabel Lyman, with
the announcement that high school students will be treated to a performance
of The Vagina MonologuesOh what a year it was!: There
was some bad in 2003, writes Alan Caruba, but for the most part the year
was filled with a lot of good newsHoward Dean and the gentrified left:
Post-modern busybodies?: Murray Soupcoff asks where, oh where, are
the Democrats today? The answer? traveling down a different path from the
rest of AmericansCanadian conservatism needs
relationship rescue: "How's that working for ya?" Canadian conservative
agenda?: J.L. Jackson wraps up her three part series on the future
of Canadian conservatism by calling on her counterparts to develop a real
agenda that they can take to CanadiansI'll take free speech over
political correctness: Rob Anders, a member of Canada's Parliament,
argues that legislation designed to protect gays and lesbians from discrimination
will end up stifling free speechU.N.: Butt out!: Henry
Lamb says that the United Nations shouldn't presume to think it has a voice
concerning the future of Iraq. America's goals for Iraq and what the U.N.
desires are not the same thingPulling the shades on the Ace of
Spades: We've all gotten spam offering to sell us theme decks of cards
but Mark Vorzimmer might actually take the plunge by picking up The Affirmity
DeckThose wild and crazy Democrats:
Phillip J. Hubbell has the news: The Republicans have Bigfoot and will
spring the news just in time for the 2004 election!An open letter to the people
of Afghanistan: In framing a new constitution, Afghans should embrace
the ideals of America's founding fathers, writes C. Bradley Thompson asks Marriage and the state:
Part II: Sean Turner concludes his two part series about the institutions
of marriage and state by arguing that conservatives are wrong to believe
that marriage is a responsibility of governmentShow the mothers compassion: Excommunicate
the politicians: As a Catholic canon lawyer Peter Vere abhors abortion
but he's angrier at Catholic politicians who ignore their faith and continue
voting in favor of pro-abortion legislationProperty owners concerned
about USA-PATRIOT: Dorothy Bartholomew is part of a growing number
of Americans angry at the growing use of the USA-PATRIOT Act to target
Americans, says Steve LilienthalThe
conservative cookie rebellion: Wendy McElroy argues that the recent
number of cookie sales designed to criticize affirmative action were parody
and satire and shouldn't have been stopped by university administratorsRejoice, Saddam has been captured!
But what happens next?: Saddam Hussein's capture this weekend will
answer a lot of questions, writes W. James Antle III, and probably
raise a whole host of new ones as wellTurning on the lights: It
isn't the end but it is the end of the beginning. Jackson Murphy hails
Saddam Hussein's capture and says it closes the opening chapter in the
liberation of the Iraqi peopleHang Saddam, then Arafat: Ariel
Natan Pasko is overjoyed at the capture of Saddam Hussein. He argues that
the next target should be Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser ArafatSaddam's capture signifies turning
tide: Carol Devine-Molin believes that Saddam Hussein's capture marks
a psychological point in campaign against terrorismGetting ready for 2004: Slate's
Field Guide to the Candidates 2004 is a nice quick and dirty guide
the candidates for president in 2004 but Steve Martinovich wished it contained
more in depth analysisAmerica has grounded the Wright
brothers: Heike Berthold believes that America has abandoned the cultural
values that made the Wright brothers' great achievement possibleThe American Empire: Tantae
molis erat American condere gentem. Get used to it, says Alan Caruba,
we are living in the early days of the American Empire. This empire, however,
is a defensive entityThe long road for the Canadian
right: Despite the obvious strengthening of the Canadian right, writes
Mark Wegierski, the new Conservative Party of Canada faces an uphill battle
against the Liberal Party and the extra-parliamentary LeftArnold Schwarzenegger for...prime
minister?: Many American conservatives are dismissive of Arnold Schwarzenegger's
conservative credentials but Michael Taube says he would have been a dream
candidate in CanadaJudge Martin's cabinet on the job
titles and record, not on map locations: Speaking of Canada, newly
minted Prime Minister Paul Martin introduced his new cabinet last week.
Walter Robinson wasn't very impressedMarriage and the state:
Conservatives and liberals are now in the midst of a battle to determine
how the state should define marriage. Sean Turner believes that the debate
should be over something else entirelyImpeachment, the unused check:
Instead of complaining about judicial activism, argues Robert S. Sargent
Jr., legislatures should invoke the weapon of impeachment to send a signal
to the judiciaryWhat's in a name?: Allan Bormel
is of the opinion that Hiibel v. Nevada -- the case of a man who
refused to give his name to a police officer -- is the wrong one to use
in the fight to protect our privacyWhy are Jews liberal…and why
we're becoming more conservative: American Jews may have a history
of voting left, writes Charles Morse, but he believes -- based on his own
history -- that those days will soon be overA shot in the arm...or the foot?:
Free medicine and free beer share one thing: neither is really ever free.
Keith D. Cummings says that Americans will eventually pay a price if government
moves to control the price of medicineJennings stumps for government
action against food: Last week ABC aired a documentary about the role
that government and business play in the fattening of Americans. Trevor
Bothwell says that subtlety wasn't one of the program's strengthsStealing our children's birthright:
Organizations like The Nature Conservancy, argues Henry Lamb, are robbing
America's land of its values and has the potential to turn Americans into
a land of rentersConcerned conservatives, not
Chicken Littles: Ever since the USA-PATRIOT Act was passed, conservatives
have warned that it could be used against them. Don't believe them? Steve
Lilienthal says you should consider the case of James PouillonAsk
before you give: This season domestic violence centers
will be asking you for money. Wendy McElroy urges
you to give as much as you can -- but not before you ask some important
questionsNavigating by the neon lights
of Taco Bell or Tim Hortons: There has been a lot of talk that
Canada is cool because it isn't a nation of Starbucks' and Taco Bells.
Jackson Murphy argues that Canada and the U.S. aren't so differentA forgotten war and its heroes:
With The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theatre
in World War II Steven Martinovich says Donovan Webster has done the
men of the China-Burma-India Theatre justiceBill Clinton's sins of omission:
Richard Miniter's Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed
Global Terror shows, says Carol Devine-Molin, that history could have
been different had Bill Clinton acted against Osama bin Laden during his
presidencyPure adrenaline?: Linda
A. Prussen-Razzano thinks a lot of John B. Olson's medical thriller Adrenaline but
she thinks it could have been even betterThe tipping point: Bruce
Walker argues that there will be no major battle that will spend the end
of the left, merely a point from which they will not be able to recoverWe remember the Reagan years:
Patti Davis confirmed what we all feared in a People essay, that
her father Ronald Reagan was fairing poorly. W. James Antle III responds
that we'll remember the past for himPlaying Israeli politician:
Ariel Natan Pasko says that the Geneva Initiative authored in part by Dr.
Yossi Beilin spells nothing less than an imperiled future for IsraelWhere's Janet Reno when we
need her?: Keith D. Cummings wants Janet Reno to lead a charge against
a federal government which is making it difficult for Americans to engage
in charitable effortsA lovely lump of coal: Alan Caruba
dearly wants the United States to receive a huge lump of coal in its stocking
for Christmas. Why? Because it's wonderful energy source despite what environmentalists
tell the American publicThe courting adventures of unemployed
man!: Bernard Chapin's good friend Yakov recently lost his job, something
that doesn't help any man on the dating scenePrejudging Bush in Iraq: There
are legitimate criticisms of what's going on in Iraq, argues Rachel Alexander,
that critics can stop repeating the tired arguments of why the United States
shouldn't have gone to war in the first placeAshamed of strength: Never
afraid to back down from a fight, Jeremy Reynalds is taking on liberals
in Albuquerque who want a 70-foot ballistic missile removed from the city's
downtown because they are offended by the fact that it was used for military
purposes as well as the space programAn Rx for our ailing health care
system: Caps on lawsuit awards: If you want to improve health care,
say David and Amy Ridenour, then it's time to get a handle on the explosion
of lawsuits that's bringing down the systemHow the left stole Christmas:
Even the Grinch eventually was infused with the spirit of Christmas. Hans
Zeiger says, however, the political left continues its war on the Christian
holidayThe UN wants to control the
Internet: We know what you're thinking about that headline: Tom DeWeese
is engaging in some more right-wing United Nations bashing. The problem
for you is that he's rightU.N. says Yellowstone no longer "in
danger": The fact that the United Nations has lifted its "in danger" designation
from Yellowstone National Park doesn't mean, says Henry Lamb, that the
world body is through trying to dictate American land use policyFree speech in action:
Howard Kaloogian argues that the protest over the CBS mini-series The Reagans
is free speech at its best despite what liberals would have you believeHats off to Senator Frist: When
Bill Frist was elected Senate Majority Leader Paul Weyrich wasn't all that
impressed but he says the man's list of accomplishments have completely
changed his mindMedia
fails public in Jackson case: Regardless of what you
think about Michael Jackson and the allegations surrounding him, Wendy
McElroy says the media has done an abysmal job serving the publicWhat exactly do big government
conservatives want to conserve?: The Republican Party is spending
like a party that wants to remain in power, writes W. James Antle III,
but the real price could be the party's soulRiding in cars with candidates:
Jackson Murphy says that Walter Shapiro's One Car Caravan: On the Road
with the 2004 Democrats Before America Tunes In is a marvelous look
at an election that is still many months awayAll in the family:
Many things may be changing in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban
but Steve Martinovich says that when it comes to the role of women Åsne
Seierstad's The Bookseller of Kabul shows that some things stay
the sameKilling millions to "save" the
Earth: The real victims of the environmentalist movement are the world's
poor, says Alan Caruba, and he says Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black
Death makes a strong case in favor of that argumentFilms we will never see: Hollywood
is great at making movies that denigrate conservative heroes which is likely
why a list of movies Bruce Walker would like to see will never be madeBush thrills troops, overshadows
Hillary's trip to Baghdad: George W. Bush's visit to America's soldiers
in Iraq was, in Carol Devine-Molin's opinion, a political masterstroke.
That's why she could care less about the moaning and groaning about the
trip from the media and Bush's political opponentsThe U.N. needs Robert Vaughn:
Actor Robert Vaughn is earning a little side money in commercials for personal
injury lawyers. Keith D. Cummings the pitch Vaughn uses in those commercials
should also be adopted by the United NationsWho is a "Palestinian refugee"?:
The "right of return" has long been a staple demand when it comes
to negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis. Who is a refugee?
According to Ariel Natan Pasko the current definition is so broad as to
be virtually worthlessGet feminist complaint canals
off our urinals!: Regardless of where you stand in the debate over
various aspects of the feminist agenda, says Bernard Chapin, unisex washrooms
have to be something we can all be opposed toCriminal activity or Christian persecution?:
Jeremy Reynalds reports on the case of Joshua Fellman who -- along with
his sister and a friend -- were charged with illegal hacking at Rogers
State University. Was the charge justified or was it in response to Fellman's
Christian activism?Who owns "public" land?:
In the United States the federal government has long maintained that it
owns so-called "public land." Henry Lamb says a recent court
decision may throw that belief right out the windowZero patience for zero tolerance:
Many people are big fans of the "zero tolerance" approach when
it comes to violence in our public schools but Wendy McElroy says it comes
at a price: the terrorization of innocent childrenFarmers for Freedom
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